<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the country’s leftist parties who they want to bring to power by ousting her.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">“The leftists have turned by 90 degrees. Well, they want to oust me. But could they determine who would come next? It is my question. Who would come to power and who would work for the country? But it is not clear who they want to bring,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The premier said this while addressing a press conference arranged at her official residence Ganabhaban on the outcome of her recent six-day visit to Thailand.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Replying to a question, she said since it is not clear whom the leftists want to bring in power next, none of them don’t get response from the people.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She said yes, movement is being carried out. Staying in a foreign land as a fugitive, someone is doing movement as well as giving orders online everyday thanks to Digital Bangladesh made by her government, she added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Let those who are waging a movement do it. We at least are not hindering it,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Criticizing the US style to curb ongoing demonstrations carried out against Israeli aggression on Palestine, the PM said there is a possibility now for Bangladesh to stop the movement here following the American style.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I think our police now can follow the American police. We asked them (Bangladesh Police) to show patience,” she said, adding that their member was beaten to death in October 2023.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“So, our police can take measures to curb movement in American style,” she went on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Replying to another question, the prime minister said her government’s goal is to make the ongoing upazila election a meaningful one.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this context, she said a good number of political parties boycott elections as they have no capacity to run in the polls, reports UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Why do they boycott elections? The reason is that they actually don’t have capacity to compete in the elections,” said Sheikh Hasina, also the President of ruling Bangladesh Awami League.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister returned to Bangladesh on April 29 after concluding her visit, which began on April 24 at the invitation of her Thai counterpart Srettha Thavisin.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/fas</div>