The former prime minister also asked her party men as well as the wealthy people to extend their support to the destitute people.

"I cannot go to them due to the changed situation, but I will stand beside them if I get the chance," she said in a statement signed by Mohiuddin Khan Mohon, former assistant press secretary to the prime minister.

She said, "The flood situation is deteriorating day by day. Better preparations and necessary steps should be taken to protect lives and properties."

Urging the authorities concerned to be more careful, she said they should be prepared for post-flood rehabilitations as many people lose their properties and livelihood due to river erosion. Besides crops are damaged and different diseases break out during that time, she added.

She said, "Natural calamities cannot be prevented but it is possible to minimise casualties and damages by handling the crisis efficiently."