Dhaka: Expressing her firm optimism Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said that occurrence of burning people in the name of politics won't happen in Bangladesh in future and new year would bring peace for the people.

‘We want that the people would no more be burnt to death and they would live in comfort with peace and security and thus the country could prosper socioeconomically,’ she said.

Accusing BNP of launching the culture of burning people to death, Prime Minister said she can't understand how a political party can do politics by burning people to death alive.

‘The BNP has initiated the culture of burning people to death...it is very regretful. It is my question that how a person who has minimum sense of humanity can commit such a cruel act?,’said the Prime Minister.

She said this after exchanging Bangla Nabobarsho greetings with central leaders of Bangladesh Awami League as well as leaders of associate bodies of the party at her official residence Ganobhaban on Tuesday morning.

The AL central leaders greeted the Prime Minister by presenting flower bouquets to her.

Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League president, said the country went through many ‘disasters’ in the last three months, and the people of the country suffered oppression for 92 days from 5 January this year.

‘Various incidents including burning people to death took place during the period that was not acceptable to anyone,’ she said.

The Prime Minister noted that the good thing was that the common people protested and resisted such cruel acts. ‘The local people and the law enforcement agencies being united contained the subversive acts of BNP-Jamaat. As a result, we've been able to overcome the situation.’

The Prime Minister also vowed to further advance Bangladesh towards socioeconomic development and build a hunger and poverty-free prosperous Bangladesh through ensuring peace and security to the life of common people.

‘It's our aim to make the independence fruitful and reach its benefits to the doorsteps of common people and we are working tirelessly to achieve the goal,’ she said.

Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh has been established as a role model on the world stage due to its stunning successes in different fields. ‘May this journey be good, the hopes and aspirations of the people be fulfilled and they be more developed in their life,’ she said.

The Prime Minister said that it is a matter of happiness that the people irrespective of caste, creed and religion are now celebrating Pahela Boishakh with fanfare and festive mood.

‘Not only in Dhaka, the people of the whole country are celebrating the Nabobarsho spontaneously, and whatever days are passing, this spirit is being awakened in their mind,’ she said.