Ruling Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said that if their party leaders and workers did not stay in field, Bangladesh Nationalist Party would carry out terrorist activities in the name of holding rally.
鈥楤NP鈥檚 rally means arson attack, disorder and bloodshed. So, if BNP is allowed to carry out their activities in the entire capital, it will put people鈥檚 life and properties in danger. That is why we have to stay in field,鈥� he said.
Quader was addressing a joint meeting of the AL at the party鈥檚 Bangabandhu Avenue central office in the capital.
AL leaders held the joint meeting with presidents and general secretaries of Dhaka city north and south units, Dhaka district unit and all associate bodies.
The AL general secretary said that AL didn鈥檛 give any counter programme rather the party leaders and workers had to stay in field for the people鈥檚 safety.
He said that if BNP got any chance, it would make damage to state and people鈥檚 life and prosperities.
Quader said that BNP feared voters and so, it was not taking part in elections. There was no logical ground of their demands over the polls, he said.
After failing to wage movement and thwarting the polls, BNP is making evil attempts to create disorder and carry out terrorist activities in the country, he added.
鈥楨veryone will have to remain alert about it,鈥� he said.
Those who do politics over the party chairperson Khaleda Zia鈥檚 treatment can do anything against the state, he said.
Noting that there is conspiracy over upazila elections, the AL general secretary urged the party leaders and workers to remain alert and not to engage in any conflict.
Quader questioned whether any election was held in a peaceful manner without any causality during the BNP鈥檚 regime.
He said that the first phase of the 6th upazila parishad elections was held in a peaceful manner and there was no report of any conflict.
So, credit of this peaceful election should be given to the Election Commission and the government, he said.
The AL general secretary said that the voter turnout in the elections could not be said very well but it could be said moderate.
Rejecting BNP鈥檚 call for boycotting polls, many leaders of the party took part in the upazila parishad elections, he added.
Nobody listens to anyone鈥檚 command in BNP, he mentioned.
He said that BNP, which had been stuck in the quicksand of errors, won鈥檛 be able to realise anything.
Though BNP leaders make bigger talks, they had become frustrated internally, he said.
As long as they don鈥檛 return to positive trend of politics, they will remain isolated from people, he said.
About BNP leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy鈥檚 comment that AL stays in power by appeasing the neighboring country, not the people of this country, Quader said: 鈥業ndia is our neighboring country and tested friend. They didn鈥檛 interfere in our elections. Awami League stays in power with the strength of people, not by appeasing India, not at the mercy of India.鈥�
He said that after the assassination of the country鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, AL had not been in power for long.
鈥楧id India bring us in power at that period?鈥� he said.
听AL presidium members Abdur Razzaque, Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Qamrul Islam and Jahangir Kabir Nanak, joint general secretaries Hasan Mahmud, Mahbubul Alam Hanif and Dipu Moni, organising secretaries Ahmed Hossain, BM Mozammel Haque, Mirza Azam and Afjal Hossain, liberation war affairs secretary Mrinal Kanti Das and office secretary Biplab Barua were present, among others.
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