Identified quarter hatching plots at home, abroad: Quader
He urges AL men not to get involved in any clash
Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday said an identified quarter is obstructing the country's advancement as it has been hatching plots at home and abroad, reports BSS.
"The conspirators do not know that Sheikh Hasina, like Bangabandhu, does not know how to retreat as she is not afraid of any conspiracy," she told a joint meeting with Awami League secretariat and leaders of the party's Dhaka North and South City units and affiliated organisations.
The meeting was organised marking the 76th birthday of AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to be observed on September 28.
Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said the plotters do not know that if Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina loses; Bangladesh, its independence and the spirit of liberation war will lose.
If Sheikh Hasina does not remain in power, Bangladesh will no longer exist, he added.
Responding to a BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's statement Quader said these nationalists want to make Bangladesh Pakistan again but "We will not allow them to make our beloved motherland as Pakistan".
The AL general secretary said: "We liberated this country by fighting against Pakistan. Fakhrul Sahib, why do you love Pakistan so much? Then, this proves that Ziaur Rahman killed Bangabandhu in 1975 to take revenge of 1971".
About the clashes between the BNP and AL men, he said BNP men fought each others in Barishal and Chattogram but the media do not want to publish the negative news of BNP.
Quader urged the AL leaders and workers not to get involved in any clash.
"If anyone gets involved in clashes, he or she will not be spared. If they do so denying our leader's (Sheikh Hasina) instruction, the responsibility will fall on the government. Our leader does not tolerate any misdeed," he said.
He blamed that the BNP wants to put responsibility of its internal clashes on the government.
About the upcoming general elections, Quader said the people will take two things - personal honesty and development - into their account in the next polls.