Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she will die if she is isolated from the public, asking the Special Security Force (SSF) not to detach her from the people.
"If you make me isolated from the people, it will not be necessary to shoot me to death; I will die anyway because they (people) are my lifeblood," she said while addressing a darbar of the SSF on its 38th founding anniversary at the PMO on Wednesday.
The prime minister asked SSF personnel not to ever isolate her from the people with whom and for whom she does politics.
"We do politics. I have no other strength. People are my only strength. We do politics with the power of the people. So make sure that I will not be isolated from the public," she said.
She reminded everyone that the people were with her when she was not in power.
In this regard, the premier mentioned that a very ordinary person, a rickshaw puller, purchased a piece of land in her name with his hard-earned money.
She said she later built a house on that land and gave it to the rickshaw puller with its ownership.
"So I will not allow anyone to isolate these people from me. They give me the power to march ahead. Everyone should keep it in mind," she added.
The prime minister asked the SSF to perform its duties in ensuring security for VVIPS with firmness, efficiency, discipline, honesty, responsibility and topmost professionalism.
"If you have no firmness, honesty and responsibility, it will not be possible to be successful," she said.