Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said those involved in acts of sabotage to dislodge the government would have to face the music.

“There is no clemency for them. They will have to face punishment. I would like to ask the people also to stand against them,” she said, referring to the train accident that took place due to uprooting of rail track in Gazipur by the BNP-Jamaat clique in the name of hartal and blockade.

The premier made the remarks while exchanging views with the newly elected committee of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) at her official Ganabhaban residence here.

She said some 20 feet of rail track was cut with a gas cutter machine at Sreepur upazila in Gazipur in the early hours of Wednesday in which eight bogies of Mohonganj Express, coming from Netrakona, got derailed in Gazipur leaving a man killed and several others injured.

“That means it is an attempt to kill the people by distracting the train bogies. They want to overthrow the government by killing the people. What can they achieve from a movement by killing people?” she said.

“They can’t oust the government by killing people. What politics do they do?” she the Prime Minister.

Coming down heavily on the BNP activists, she said the terrorists belonging to the party did the same thing on several occasions in the past.

She said BNP continues arson violence and they are announcing strike (hartal) and blockade programmes every day, adding that the strike and blockade meant burning several buses and trucks.