The ruling Awami League general secretary, Obaidul Quader, on Sunday said that the national budget for the fiscal year of 2024-25 was proposed to stop the looting of big fish.
Addressing a joint meeting with Dhaka Metropolitan North-South, district Awami League and all allied organisations' leaders at Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka, he said that the looters were not punished during the BNP regime but Awami League would not spare anyone regardless of party affiliations for involvement in corruption.
Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said, 鈥淧rime Minister Sheikh Hasina has saved the country from the reign of looting that was created during the BNP regime that led the country towards destruction. No one will get away with looting now. BNP does not have the courage to punish its own people.鈥�
鈥淲e must hold peace rallies to protect the lives and properties of听 people against the culture of arson terrorism introduced by BNP. You have to resist it. You have to be ready on the streets,鈥� he told party leaders.
AL presidium member Jahangir Kabir Nanak, joint general secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif and AFM Bahauddin Nasim, organizing secretaries BM Mozammel Haque, SM Kamal Joshi, Mirza Azam and听 Sujit Roy Nandi were, among others, present at the meeting.
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