Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said BNP is making ill attempts to create a chaotic situation in the country in the name of mass movement, reports BSS.
"BNP is daydreaming about mass movement. But Bangabandhu's daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's development activities and achievements have put a dark shadow of crisis on BNP's movement. Their mass movement dream is now tantamount to nightmare," he said.
Quader, also road transport and bridges minister, said this at a press conference held at his official residence in the city.
He said the people are so happy over the development and achievement of the government that they didn't respond to BNP's repeated call for movement in the last 13 years.
"The people didn't respond to BNP's call for movement in the last 13 years and I believe they will do the same in future too. So, BNP's desire for movement will turn into despair soon," he observed.
BNP is dreaming of making revolution in the style of Khomeini by bringing back its convicted fugitive acting chairman Tarique Rahman from the bank of River Thames for launching so-called mass movement, he mentioned.
In response to BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's comment that movement has spread all over the country from Dhaka University and party leaders and workers would not return home until the government is ousted, Quader said: "Through this comment, we are noticing evil-attempts to create a bad situation in the country."
About another comment of Fakhrul that BNP took to the streets to restore democracy not to bring any individual or party to power, the AL general secretary said the people think this comment is an 'extreme falsehood and fraudulence' with the nation.
It is nothing but a falsehood and fraudulence that the party, which had 'killed' democracy during its tenure, would restore democracy after going to power again, he added.
Meanwhile, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said eminent journalist and columnist Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury will always remain alive through his immortal song on the 1952 Language Movement - 'Amar bhaier rokte rangano ekushey February'.

He said this while talking to journalists after paying tributes to Gaffar Chowdhury by placing a wreath on his coffin at the Central Shaheed Minar on behalf of Awami League (AL).
Quader, also road transport and bridges minister, said the nation has lost the "largest banyan tree" in the cultural arena of this age at the death of Gaffar Chowdhury, also a political analyst, writer, poet and lyricist, who penned the immortal song on Amar Ekushey.
Chowdhury always gave directives to the nation in different transitional periods, he said.
"We, who are in state power, will feel his vacuum in getting directives during this ongoing global crisis period," he mentioned.
AL Presidium Members Begum Matia Chowdhury, Dr Abdur Razzaque, Nurul Islam Nahid and Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Joint General Secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif, Dr Dipu Moni and AFM Bahauddin Nasim, Organizing Secretary Mirza Azam and SM Kamal Hossain, Relief and Social Welfare Secretary Sujit Roy Nandi, Office Secretary Barrister Biplab Barua, Central Working Committee Members Dr Mustafa Jalal Mahiuddin and Anwar Hossain were present on the occasion.
Earlier, Obaidul Quader along with the party leaders paid glowing tributes to Gaffar Chowdhury by placing wreath on his coffin.