Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said that BNP had a plot to capture Ganabhaban like Sri Lanka, if the curfew had not been enforced on the night of July 19 to control the situation created centering the quota reform movement.
鈥榊our [BNP] brutality crossed all limits, even the barbarism of the [Pakistani] occupation forces. The fugitive culprit [Tarique Rahman] from London had a plan to capture the residence of the prime minister in 鈥淪ri Lanka style鈥� through mass upsurge,鈥� he said.
The AL general secretary said this before the distribution of food items among the distressed people at the Awami League Dhaka district office in the capital鈥檚 Tejgaon.
Quader said that the BNP was now talking about forging a new platform along with anti-state and anti-development forces. It is normal that their (BNP) collaborators will respond to their call, he said, adding, 鈥楾heir unity is the unity of arson terrorism... their unity is the unity of destruction of the country and its development.鈥�
He said that masterminds of one-eleven like Yunus also joined with them. He is now opposing the country openly and urging foreigners to interfere in the country鈥檚 internal issues, the minister said, adding even Yunus is demanding the holding of a new election in his interview with mass media.
The AL general secretary said that many foreigners from abroad, including organisations and teachers of universities, were making statements. The government knows who is coordinating them.
He urged the statement givers to see the destructive activities of BNP-Jamaat and their collaborators instead of making statements. They have torched 44 BRTC buses, toll plazas of elevated expressway and metro rail, he said.
Even, he said, the journalists also became victims.
He said that Yunus who didn鈥檛 get a response from people during the one-eleven changeover and opposed the construction of Padma Bridge was in the field again. 鈥楬e urged India to stop prime minister Sheikh Hasina. But Sheikh Hasina is not the attacker... she is the victim,鈥� Quader said.
He said that the armed forces didn鈥檛 fire a single bullet. The army came into the field when the prime minister decided to declare a curfew, he said.
Quader said that prime minister Sheikh Hasina was visiting the hospitals responding to the call of her conscience.
AL presidium members Abdur Razzak and lawyer Kamrul Islam and prganising secretary Mirza Azam, among others, were present in the programme while AL Dhaka district unit president Banzir Ahmed conducted it.
The distressed people received 10kg rice, 2kg potato,1kg lentil, 1kg salt and 1litre oil.