Talking to newsmen at her Dhanmondi residence at 1:00am, Hasina, also the president of Awami League, held the ruling coalition responsible for all bomb and grenade blasts including the last night's in Habiganj.

She castigated the BNP-led ruling coalition for failing to bring the culprits in the earlier blast incidents into book and said, "This suggests they (government) had backed the attackers in all these incidents."

Referring to the August 21 grenade attack on her rally, bomb explosion at Sylhet shrine last year and another blast at Mohila AL meeting, she said that none of the masterminds behind those attacks was brought to justice.

She announced demonstration programmes across the country for today, a daylong hartal across the country for tomorrow. She said a series of programmes would follow Saturday's hartal.

Shocked at the death of Kibria and others, Hasina sobbed as she recalled the memories with her former political advisor. She described Kibria as polite and a person of international stature.

She called upon the countrymen to get united and intensify the movement till the fall of the government.

AL president said that in last three years the government had killed many grass-roots level opposition workers and now they (government) have started to aim at the senior leaders.

Hinting at Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, the opposition chief wondered as to 'how much blood would it take to fulfil the lust of the mother and the son.'

She said there hardly any sense of security prevail among the people under the coalition regime and alleged that many opposition activists could not even visit their own constituencies in last three years because of political persecution.