Face 'AL plot' politically

LGRD and Cooperatives Minister and BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan inaugurates a meeting of the delegates of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal city unit (North-South) at the Mahanagar Natyamancha yesterday. Photo: Star

"To Awami League the country is not big, the party is bigger than the country," the BNP Secretary General told a conference of the Dhaka City (north-south) unit of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal at the 'Mohanagar Natya Mancha' here.

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman greeted the Jubo Dal delegates.

Housing and Public Works Minister Mirza Abbas and Jubo Dal President Barkat Ullah Bulu spoke at the opening session with Jubo Dal city president Jashimuddin Mahmud in the chair.

Bhuiyan regretted that AL was not rising up to the expectation of the people as the opposition political party.

He recalled that while in power Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina had promised to the nation that she would not call any hartal but she broke her promise enforcing 17 hartals on "silly matters."

"She has also threatened to call not-stop hartal while calling a general strike on August 16. Awami League has taken the stand against the development and the nation. We have to face it unitedly," the BNP secretary general added.

He said Awami League was now ruining the country in its bid to discredit BNP.