BNP failed to wage movement as people boycotted them

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader said on Sunday BNP failed to win elections and wage movement as the people boycotted them, reports BSS.

He also said BNP gets defeated before their defeat in elections.

The Al leader came up with the remarks while addressing, through a videoconferencing from his city's residence, the inaugural ceremony of a bungalow named 'Padma' constructed under Munshiganj road zone beside Dhaka-Mawa Expressway.

Pointing to BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Quader said if no polls took place in the country, how did he (Fakhrul) win the parliamentary polls from Bogura?

"If BNP wins, everything becomes okay but if it loses, everything becomes improper," he said urging the party to come out of that kind of confusion and mental conflicts.

About BNP secretary general's remarks that the government is surviving without public support, The AL general secretary said if anyone looks at the recent elections, it will be clearly seen that in most of the cases the people have boycotted BNP.

Obaidul Quaderurged the city corporations and municipalities to intensify mosquito killing measures and cleanliness programme as the number of dengue cases increased at different parts of the country including the capital.

The bungalow Padma was constructed at a cost of around Tk 70.7 million.

Road Transport and Highways Division Secretary Md. Nazrul Islam, Roads and Highways Department Chief Engineer Quazi Shahriar Hossain and Dhaka road zone Additional Chief Engineer Sabuj Uddin Khan joined the videoconferencing, among others.