Ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said that without polls, there was no scope to oust the government through a secret alleyway.
He said this in a statement in protest against Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s comments, describing those as ‘baseless, ill-motivated and conspiratorial’.
About Fakhrul’s claim that the nation’s existence will get ruined if the government cannot be ousted, Quader said that BNP itself was the major barrier to Bangladesh’s existence, progress and prosperity.
Noting that Awami League is the vigilant sentinel of Bangladesh’s meaningful existence and sovereignty, he said that the country’s existence was established on solid foundation under the vigorous leadership of prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Quader, also road transport and bridges minister, said that Bangladesh’s footing had become stronger now than any time in the past in all aspects, including socioeconomic and geopolitical periphery.
Pointing to BNP, he said in the statement that the party had resorted to various conspiracies and plots with an evil attempt to destroy the country’s existence in the name of opposing the government.
As BNP has a brutal mentality, it had promulgated Indemnity Ordinance to save the killers of the country’s founding president and perpetrated gruesome grenade attacks on Awami League’s anti-terrorism rally on August 21, 2004, he mentioned.
Describing Tarique Rahamn, BNP acting chairman and absconding convict in several cases, including August 21 grenade attack, as killer and perpetrator of August 21 massacre, he said that Tarique and his party leaders were the key obstacles to the country’s peace and stability.
He said that the nation’s existence had sustained for hundreds of years and it still continued and it would remain intact in the days to come as well. But it is now a major question whether BNP’s existence will sustain or not.
About BNP’s motto of movement to bring back Tarqiue Rahman to the country, Quader questioned the BNP leaders who was obstructing the return of their fugitive leader to Bangladesh and said that Awami League and the government wanted Tarique to come back to face the sentence.
If Tarique has the courage, let him return home and there is no need of movement to this end, he said.
