Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday called upon her party members and the affluent section of the society to stand beside the poor and low-income people who have been affected by recent unrest and “complete shutdown” across the country.

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In a statement the prime minister asked her party’s leaders and activists at all levels and its well-wishers and associate bodies as well as the well-off people to extend their assistances for the poor and low-income people.

The PM said the lives and livelihood of the common people have got disrupted due to the recent incidents and complete shutdown programmes following the quota movement.  Besides, BNP, Jamaat-Shibir in organised ways torched and vandalised different public and private structures and houses including Metro-rail, Expressway, BTV Bhaban, Setu Bhaban, Durjug Babasthyapana Bhaban (Disaster Management Bhaban).

She said a lot of public and private vehicles including buses and trucks were damaged by setting those on fire.

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In this context, the government on July 20 was forced to impose curfew for the sake of the security of public life and properties and brining the livelihoods to normalcy, said PM Hasina.

The income activities of the low-income people and those who live hand to mouth are being disrupted. The low-income people particularly rickshaw-pullers, van-pullers, vendors, small businessmen, day labourers, transport workers and the people of many other professions have fallen into serious troubles, she said.

“In this situation, I’m making a sincere call to the leaders and activists of our party Bangladesh Awami League and its associate bodies from the central level to the grassroots level to extend their hands of assistances to the affected people,” said the PM.

She hoped that the leaders and activists of AL and its associate bodies would help the general people in this critical time as they stood beside the affected people during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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“Alongside, I would to like to request the affluent section of the society to stand beside the poor and working people in their areas and to extend their hands of humanitarian assistances to them,” said the Prime Minister in the statement signed by PM’s Speechwriter Md Nazrul Islam.