Govt cannot survive a month if I am arrested: Kader Siddiqui

TANGAIL: Throwing a challenge to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Krishak Sramik Janata League president Kader Siddiqui Saturday said she cannot remain in power for even a month if he is arrested.
“Arrest me right now if you have the courage. You (Hasina) can’t stay in power for a month even though no movement is waged. If you can, I’ll wear bangles around my wrists,” he said.
The KSJL chief was addressing a rally at Kachua High School ground in Sakhipur upazila in the afternoon.
The rally was organised protesting the ‘vote looting’ by Awami League in the by-polls to Sakhipur-Basail constituency on November 15, 1999 and demanding a fresh national election with the participation of all political parties.
A Dhaka court Tuesday issued a warrant for the arrest of Kader Siddiqui in a defamation case filed for calling former Home Minister MK Alamgir a ‘Razakar’.
On February 19 last year, National Freedom Fighters Foundation general secretary Ruhul Amin Majumder filed the libel suit against Kader Siddiqui.
Kader Siddiqui said he would call a Razakar the Razakar even if he is to spend his whole life in jail. “To me, there’s no difference between a residence and the jail. All is same.”
He also alleged the government, which snatched the people’s rights to vote, is now doing whatever it likes taking the advantage of a weak main opposition.
The KSJL president also came down hard on BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman and Prime Minister’s Information and Communication Technology adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy for their tirades against Bangabandhu and Ziaur Rahman.
“One is calling Bangabandhu treacherous while another is terming BNP the party of Razakars,” he said posing a question if Bangabandhu is treacherous and BNP is the party of Razakars, who made the country independent, according to a news agency.