The ruling Awami League on Sunday blasted its greater alliance partner Jatiya Party chairman GM Quader’s remarks about the January 7 general election.
In the remarks, Quader alleged that three foreign big powers worked to keep the Awami League in power.
Following JP chairman GM Quader’s statement that the Jatiya Party took part in the election under foreign pressure and threat of splitting the party, Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday wanted to know for what reason the Jatiya Party came to the election under whose pressure.
He put this question in response to journalists’ questions after paying tribute at the grave of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s son Sheikh Jamal at Banani Graveyard in Dhaka on the day.
‘He [GM Quader] talked about foreign powers. I don’t know if he is feeling that pressure or not. Because they were born down the barrel of a gun and did not come to power in a democratic way,’ Obaidul Quader said.
Earlier on Saturday, GM Quader in his speech at the extended meeting of the central executive committee of the Jatiya Party at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh auditorium in Ramna in the capital said, ‘The Jatiya Party had to join in the election due to foreign pressure and prevent party fragmentation.’
‘I had already understood that the BNP’s movement would not succeed. Three foreign big powers are working to keep the Awami League in power. So I took part in the election to sustain the existence of the party. But the election was not good,’ he said.
GM Quader said that he had clearly understood it by meeting with foreign friends before the election that three foreign big powers were working to keep the Awami League in power and make the election successful.
‘Not only the three, there were several other foreign powers ready to work for the Awami League,’ he added.
He said that the government is not giving any space to any political parties as only the Awami League remained in the field.
He also said that the people could not consider the ruling party as a political party while the Awami League lost its political character.
