Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday expressed her frustration for not having a strong opposition in the country as the two main opposition parties, created by military rulers, don't have base among the mass people. “We are not getting strong opposition. They do not have their position among the people of the country,” she said. She said this while holding a views exchange meeting with the officials of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). The meeting lasting three and half hours was held at the PMO with the prime minister in the chair. Apparently pointing to the opposition BNP and Jatiya Party she said both were created by the military dictators, who grabbed the state power defying the Constitution. “They don't have any interest for the country and its people,” she said.  Hasina, also the chief of the ruling Awami League, said that her party is the only political party that comes from the land and people of the country. “For that reason all our thinking always centres round the country and its people,” she said. She said that in developed countries politics is dominated by two parties only. “In most of the cases there is no other party except two parties. There is reluctance seen in the other parties in participating in elections. Same thing is happening in our countries also,” she said. She mentioned that when the western world talks about democracy and participatory elections, they hardly think about the situation in Bangladesh where the opposition parties have no strong popular support. Also read: Work for people’s welfare, PM urges police force Hasina discounted the propaganda about Bangladesh becoming another Sri Lanka (a nation in economic crisis).   “We are taking various types of assistance for development. That’s right. But we are not loan defaulter and even during the COVID-19 pandemic we repaid our loans, Bangladesh is the only country that repay all loans in due time,” she said. She said that Bangladesh takes various types of development programmes and before taking that the government do its proper calculation.  “From where we should take loan and how much, what benefits we will get from this development and what will be the return – all these are well analysed and calculated,” she said. Regarding the foreign investments Hasina said that Bangladesh welcomes only the investment which will be beneficial for the country. “We do not accept any investment just for showing investments are coming.”