DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also president of incumbent Awami League, during her London visit, categorically rejected any chance of holding talks with BNP.

Sheikh Hasina made the assertion in an interview with BBC Bangla in London.

She said, “BNP has made a mistake and they have to pay for it.”

“I do not understand why people are so busy about talks? I myself called her as a Prime Minister but everyone knows the result. Who can be blamed if a party takes wrong decisions?” she added.

The premier also alleged that BNP supported extremism and fundamentalism and tried to save the collaborators of 1971 by killing people.

She asked, “Why this question comes time and again that we have to invite them, talk to them?”

Though she rejected of holding talks with BNP she did not comment whether the next election would be held in the same process like January 5 general election.

It was a natural course of events of holding an election after the completion of her government’s tenure but BNP had taken recourse to massive violence to stop the election, she further said.

Hasina asked, “Is it better to pave ways for undemocratic forces to seize power by not participating in the elections?”

She also alleged that BNP did what Jamaat-e-Islami wanted them to do.

Awami League leader also talked about the formation of her government, where the opposition is in the government also, saying this is not a new system.

She also asked, “Who, in Bangladesh, was courageous enough to bring the collaborators (of 1971) under trials and punish them accordingly?”

BDST: 0703 HRS, JUL 25, 2014/updated 0838hrs