BNP’s movement threat a mockery

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said BNP's threat of movement has turned into a mockery.

Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said the people have not forgotten yet that the BNP's one-point, 10-point and 31-point movements were nothing but failures.

In a statement, he said BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and other leaders are spreading propaganda among the people in the name of so-called road march.

The people of Bangladesh know better that the BNP's movement is a movement to bring Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman, who are sentenced in graft cases, to the state power through murder, coup and conspiracy, he said.

Quader said the country's history testifies that BNP is a failed political party, which destroyed the country's constitution and democracy and snatched the voting rights of people.

The AL general secretary said BNP is trying to create anarchy in the country through provocation.

AL is committed to resisting any kind of terrorism and anarchy involving the country's peace-loving people, he said.

During BNP's rule, the party gave terrorism and corruption an institutional form at all levels of the state, misappropriated the money of orphans and turned Bangladesh into a sanctuary of militancy, he added.

When BNP was in power, their achievement was becoming champion in graft five times in a row, he said.

BNP leaders are spreading propaganda against not only the ruling Awami League but also various constitutional institutions of the country, he added.

Regarding Sheikh Hasina's recently concluded foreign tour, Quader said Bangabandhu's daughter, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, never returns home empty handed. She always brought dignity, prosperity and recognition to Bangladesh.