<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated that the country's next parliamentary election will be free, fair and credible.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>“InshAllah, there will be a free, fair and impartial elections in Bangladesh,” she said here on Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister said this while addressing a civic reception accorded to her at a hotel here.</div><div><br></div><div>New York Metropolitan Awami League organised the reception on Friday evening.</div><div><br></div><div>The premier is now in New York to attend the 78th UNGA session.</div><div><br></div><div>Hasina, also the chief of ruling Awami League, said that BNP doesn’t want election.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Actually, does BNP want the election? How do they want the election? Who is their leader?,” she questioned.</div><div><br></div><div>“Fugitive convict, money thief, arms smuggler, murderer, grenade launcher of August 21 (is their leader);&nbsp; if this is the leader of a party then why should people vote for that party and him,” she wondered.</div><div><br></div><div>She mentioned that BNP didn’t get votes in the 2008 election as well as didn’t participate in the 2014 election.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>She mentioned that BNP killed people by arson attacks in the name of preventing the election.</div><div><br></div><div>“How many lives have been taken? If you still see the face of those burnt people; how terrible! It seems that those who did it despicable.”</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the upcoming elections due in first week of January, Hasina vowed to make it free, fair and impartial.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“People will vote correctly," she told the audience.</div><div><br></div><div>She said the people of Bangladesh have at least realised this that they got freedom by voting for boat (AL’s election symbol).</div><div><br></div><div>She mentioned that the fate of the people has changed as a result of voting for this symbol, boat.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“The image of Bangladesh has been brightened all over the world,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>The prime minister called upon all not to pay heed to the false propaganda by vested quarters.</div><div><br></div><div>“When world leaders today recognise (the success of Bangladesh), we shouldn’t need to pay heed to what a few scumbags are saying,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>She mentioned that those convicted, who committed various crimes, may have lost their jobs in different ways.</div><div><br></div><div>“Now they’ve taken shelter in different countries of the world and are spreading slanders through different social media and apps to cover up their misdeeds," she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Urging all to unmask the faces of slanderers, Hasina said that their characters should be exposed when they spread lies. According to UNB reports</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>