People know what AL leaders do

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday slammed his ruling party counterpart Obaidul Quader for making a "personal attack", and said the people very well know how the Awami League leaders went from rags to riches.

Speaking at a press conference at the BNP's Nayapaltan central office, the BNP leader alleged that Quader made some objectionable comments about him on Saturday going beyond all moral decency.

"He [Quader] attacked me personally and said we get money from Dubai and I am lying on money. I would like to tell Obaidul Quader, 'Don't push us too hard. Earthworms can come out of the soil while digging'."

Fakhrul said everyone knows what the Awami League leaders do and how they make money. "The people of this country know what you have been doing since the creation of Bangladesh. You are going from rags to riches overnight."

He said the people of Bangladesh have all information about who among the ruling party leaders are making second homes in Canada, Singapore and Malaysia and who are laundering money.

"We also know who own how many banks and who made how many houses in America...this is the money of taxpayers of this country. You are looting that money."

Fakhrul said this is very unfortunate that the general secretary of a major party made personal attack on his counterpart in an indecent manner.

"If you launch attack on a personal level, you will not be able to deal with the consequence. One day the information about how you plundered public money will be revealed."

On Saturday, addressing a rally organised on the occasion of the triennial council for Dhaka district AL in the city's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area, Quader alleged that Fakhrul is receiving funds from foreign countries to wage movements against the government.

Trashing the allegation, Fakhrul said, "We do politics by selling our ancestral property. We don't do politics with anyone else's money. The people of our party and our every member are spending their money for our rallies. This is our character."

Criticising the Quader's for his comment that AL's Saturday's rally was much bigger than that of BNP's in Rangpur, he said the ruling party brought people to their programme by vehicles and using public money, but it could not fill 22,000 chairs kept at the venue.

Fakhrul also questioned as to why the ruling party stop transport movement and attack opposition activists to obstruct BNP rallies if the party is so strong.