DHAKA, Oct 8, 2020 (BSS) – Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said the BNP leaders from top to bottom should resign from their posts for failing in movements and polls.
“BNP workers become inactive due to extreme failure of their party leaders. Sometimes they announce for waging movement after Eid, sometimes they call for movement after SSC examination or rainy season,” he said.
He added: “Many Eids, examinations and rainy seasons have passed, but the people never witnessed any movement of BNP”.
Quader was addressing a virtual press conference on contemporary issues from his official residence on the parliament premises here.
He said BNP’s movement is now confined to press briefing and Facebook status. BNP is the most unsuccessful opposition party in the country’s political history.
“So, not the government rather the BNP leaders from top to bottom should resign for their failures,” he added.
About BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s remarks that the government has no right to stay in power, the AL general secretary said after failing in movement and elections, BNP is now acting like a disorientated traveler who has lost his ways.
They could not wage any kind of movement for releasing their party chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and even they failed to mount any pressure for her release, he added.
The minister said BNP is now out to hatch conspiracy aboard against the government. But there will be no benefit in hatching plots at home and aboard as the government remains alert about their intrigues, he said.
Mentioning that the government and the AL have cleared its own stance over the recent incidents of violence on women, the minister said the accused in all such cases, including the incident of Noakhali, have been arrested immediately and brought to justice.
The perpetrators of such heinous crimes can’t have any party identity and party identity can’t be the shield for their protection, he added.
Quader said the government has taken steps before any movement over the issue as the government’s stance is very tough against such heinous acts.
“Such criminals cannot be given any political shelter and those who would patronize those criminals will also be brought to justice,” he warned.
He said BNP is making their evil attempts to divert such incidents to a different direction for their political gain.
Whenever BNP gets any issue, they make their evil attempts to wage anti-government movement capitalizing on falsehood, he added.
The minister said the nation wants to know whether BNP has forgot that when they came to power in 2001, they made the country into a safe haven of terrorism, killings, women repression and persecution on minority community.
As many as 21,000 leaders and workers of AL were killed during the tenure of BNP while the world was stunned witnessing the incidents of women repression, he said.
During the BNP regime, he said, Fahima, Mahima, Purnima and hundreds of women were raped but none got justice while repression on minority community had even surpassed the incidents of torture by Pakistani occupation forces in 1971.
Mentioning that BNP is now talking big, the AL general secretary said BNP leaders had kidnapped their own party leader Jamal Uddin in Chattogram and later killed him but did not hold the trial of the murder.
“So, before making comments, see your own face in the mirror,” he said, adding that it is BNP’s political culture to give shelter to offenders and killers and rehabilitate them.
Quader said Begum Khaleda Zia had passed the indemnity bill in parliament to stop the trial of the killing of 98 people in the name of “Operation Clean Heart”.