Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday questioned how convicted fugitive Tarique Rahman became the acting chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) despite being a foreign national, reports BSS.
He asked this question at a press conference held at his secretariat office on Sunday morning.
Posing another question to BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the AL leader said, "How much money did a convicted fugitive like Tarique Rahman invest in getting foreign citizenship? Tarique Rahman siphoned off the money he invested abroad".
About the BNP leaders' statements on democracy and elections, he said BNP founder and military dictator Ziaur Rahman had undermined the country's democracy by holding 'yes-no vote'.
Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said at that time, Zia illegally declared himself the President as the chief of army staff.
All elections held during Zia's reign, including the presidential election in 1977, parliamentary elections in 1979 and the presidential election in 1981, were questionable, he said.
Mentioning that the country's people did not forget the Magura's polls yet, the AL general secretary said Begum Zia held elections without voters on February 15, 1996 and tried to hold polls in 2006 with 1.23 crore fake voters.
"What kind of democracy it was?" he questioned.
He said the BNP men carried out terrorism and arson attacks, conducted oppression on minorities, seized voting centres, killed the leaders and workers of the oppositions and raped women during their regime.
Quader questions legality of fugitive convict Tarique's position in BNP
FE Team | Published: June 06, 2022 00:29:39
Quader questions legality of fugitive convict Tarique's position in BNP
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