BNP should be ashamed after Pak PM's remark: Quader

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said BNP should be ashamed of Pakistani Prime Minister's remarks over the development of Bangladesh, reports BSS.

"BNP leaders cannot witness the country's development as they put on black glasses," he said after paying tributes to Shaheed Sheikh Jamal by placing wreaths at his grave at Banani graveyard on his 71st birthday.

Noting that BNP has friendship with Pakistan, Quader said though Pakistan can see Bangladesh's progress, BNP can't do so.

He said once Pakistan considered Bangladesh as its burden but now they feel ashamed looking towards Bangladesh.

In response to a comment of Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader that there was pressure on the party to take part in the national polls, the AL general secretary said Jatiya Party was born down the barrel of a gun and it was not born in a democratic way.

Quader said 42 per cent people cast their votes in the elections and there was no incident of killing on the day of voting.

"We didn't feel any pressure here," he said.

GM Quader himself should clear under whose pressure and why they took part in the elections, he said.

The minister said August 15, 1975 carnage was perpetrated to eliminate Bangabandhu family forever from Bangladesh.

He said Mostaq-Zia clique patronised the killers; with the assassination of Bangabandhu, the politics of killing, coup and conspiracy began in the country.

After returning home, Bangabandhu's daughter Sheikh Hasina stopped the politics of coup and conspiracy and introduced the trend of development and progress, said Quader.

Meanwhile, leaders and workers of Bangladesh Awami League (AL) and its associate organisations today paid rich tributes to heroic freedom fighter Sheikh Jamal, second son of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, marking his 71st birthday.

AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader placed wreaths at the grave of Sheikh Jamal at the city's Banani Graveyard on behalf of AL president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Later, he along with AL central leaders placed wreaths at the grave of Sheikh Jamal.

Among the leaders, AL Presidium Member Dr Mostafa Jalal Mohiuddin, Joint

General Secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif, Dr Dipu Moni and AFM Bahauddin

Nasim, Organizing Secretaries Ahmad Hossain, BM Mozammel Haque, Abu Syeed Al Mahmud Swapon, Afzal Hossain and Sujit Roy Nandi, Publicity and Publication Secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap and Deputy Office Secretary Sayem Khan were present on the occasion.