Govt won't interfere in city polls: Quader

Vowing that all upcoming city elections, including Gazipur city one, will be free and fair, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said the government will not interfere in the elections, reports BSS.
"It will be shown that how to make elections fair under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina," he told a protest rally here.

Dhaka South City unit of Awami League arranged the rally in front of the party's Bangabandhu Avenue central office, protesting the death threat given recently to AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said whether anyone comes to elections or not, the next general elections will be held in the same way.
He said BNP wants to halt the upcoming elections, but the AL in association with the country's people will resist BNP men.
Blaming that BNP wants conflict, instability, disorder and bloodshed in the country, the AL general secretary said the ruling party AL wants to hold elections peacefully to give the country's democracy an institutional shape.
Welcoming foreign observers to the next general elections, he said: "The foreign observers will be invited to the elections".
Quader said BNP is trying to make the next parliamentary polls questionable sensing that the AL's victory cannot be prevented in any way in the upcoming national elections.
Claiming that BNP wants to turn Bangladesh into Pakistan and Afghanistan like one by killing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, he said, "I got surprised and the people of Bangladesh were surprised too. Two days have passed after threatening (AL President) but Mirza Fakhrul and senior BNP leaders did not utter a single word. All of them are silent spectators".