AL men asked to stop racketeering for Aug 15 event

Communications Minister Obaidul Quader has asked Awami League supporters not to extort anyone for National Mourning Day programmes.
 Quader made the call at an event to commemorate the birth anniversary of Sheikh Kamal, elder son of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the founder of the sports club Abahani Limited, according to a news agency.
“You don’t need much to observe the Mourning Day. I will request you to raise the money amongst yourselves,” Quader said at the event.
“Don’t demean Bangabandhu with your racketeering. We must have respect for the grief of Aug 15,” he said.
The event was hosted by Juba League at the Awami League headquarters at Bangabandhu Avenue.
The senior leader called on his party men to have a mindset for sacrifice.
“Don’t come into politics for power, do it for true patriotism and sacrifice,” he said.
Awami League and its affiliates have observed Aug 15 as a mourning day since Bangabandhu and most of his family was murdered on this day in 1975.
Quader remarked that the government was not worried about the BNP’s ‘threats’ of a movement.
“There’s no need to get scared. They’re all talk and no action. BNP’s movement is lost in frustration,” he said.