Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Monday said that memorandum of understanding and agreement were not same thing.
鈥楳r Mirza Fakhrul, are memorandum of understanding and agreement same? Don鈥檛 you study? Don鈥檛 you know the diplomatic language? Listen, memorandum of understanding is not the same,鈥� he said while addressing a discussion at Dhaka district AL office at Tejgaon in Dhaka.
Dhaka city north AL organised the discussion marking the 75th founding anniversary of the Awami League.
Quader said that the government had been able to realise different types of facilities, as there was a friendly relationship between Bangladesh and India.
If disbelief takes place, friendship doesn鈥檛 exist, he said.
鈥榃e signed a memorandum of understanding with Malaysia for Padma Bridge. But later, we built the Padma Bridge with our domestic fund. If we signed agreement, we would have been bound to give the charge of constructing Padma Bridge to them (Malaysia),鈥� he said.
The AL general secretary said that Mirza Fakhrul now was in severe problem as an order came from London last night.
Order came to include someone and exclude someone and this thing is going inside BNP now, he said.
There is disbelief inside BNP centering movement against AL as one leader of BNP is now blaming another one as an agent of the government, Quader said.
鈥楾hen who will wage movement? BNP鈥檚 programme is fake,鈥� he said.
Quader said that India was a friend of the AL government but the BNP wanted India鈥檚 slavery when it was in power.
When Narendra Modi came to power for the first time, BNP leaders went to flowers and sweets to greet him but now BNP is opposing India.
鈥楾his is BNP,鈥� he said.
In 2001, BNP came to power by promising that it would sell gas to India, he said.
AL presidium member Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Dhaka North City Corporation mayor Atiqul Islam spoke on the occasion, among others, with Dhaka City North AL president Sheikh Bazlur Rahman in the chair.