Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader said on Thursday refraining from inviting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to join the birth centenary programme of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman would have been an act of ingratitude, report agencies.
"India helped us most during the Liberation War of Bangladesh and that's why the Indian Prime Minister has been invited to join the programme. Refraining from inviting the Indian PM would have been an act of ingratitude," said Quader.
The minister came up with the remark while relying to a question from reporters over a call on social medial for not inviting the Indian PM to attend the celebration programme at the secretariat.
The yearlong celebrations making Bangabandhu's birth centenary will start on March 17.
"The Indian government helped Bangladesh's freedom fighters by providing training and arms. The blood of Indians got mixed with that of the people of Bangladesh. So, it would have been an act of ungratefulness had the Indian Prime Minister not been invited to join it," he said.Replying to a question about the graft cases of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, Quader said it did not matter whether she was sued for swindling Tk 2.0 billion or Tk 20 million. "We have to look if there was corruption or not," he said, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is an independent agency and it filed graft cases against Khaleda Zia.
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