Don't do business using Bangabandhu's picture

Awami League (AL) general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday asked the party leaders and activists not to do business using the pictures of Bangabandhu, Sheikh Hasina and Sajeeb Wazed Joy, reports BSS.

He said Bangabandhu's family is the best example of honesty and all of them, including family members of Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, are established in their respective workplaces.

The AL leader came up with the remarks while addressing a discussion organised by Tanti League at AL central office in the city's Bangabandhu Avenue area, marking the National Mourning Day.

Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said BNP is gradually shrinking in the politics of vote and suffering from identity crisis.

"As it has been established in the people's mind that BNP was involved in Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's killing and it tried to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina through grenade attacks, leaders of the party (BNP) are talking nonsense, thinking about their endangered future," he said.

"Their (BNP) hands are stained with blood as they do the politics of killing," he said, adding that they tried to erase Bangabandhu from the history of Bangladesh, but they themselves have been erased.

Reason behind the arrogant words of Tarique Rahman is that he was the mastermind behind the 21 August grenade attack and his father Ziaur Rahman was the mastermind behind the 15 August carnage, the AL general secretary said.

Tarique Rahman is spreading falsehood and doing politics of conspiracy staying in London, he said.

"When they (BNP) face the truth in the month of August, they become intolerant," he added.

Presided over by Tanti League President Engineer Mohammad Shawkat Ali, AL Office Secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap, Dhaka City South AL General Secretary Shahe Alam Murad and Tanti League General Secretary Khagendra Chandra Debnath addressed the discussion, among others.