Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridge Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday asked the party leaders and activists to stand by the people badly affected by Cyclone ‘Sitrang’,
He also said the Sheikh Hasina’s government will always remain beside the people.
Quader said this while speaking at a press briefing at his Secretariat office in the capital.
Commenting that the BNP leaders talk about democracy but nurtures the practice of looting and opportunity, he said the BNP delivers the speaking of freedom but with it they patronize anti-liberation and communal forces.
The AL general secretary said the BNP talks about the people’s rights to vote but the party held a voter-less polls on February 15 in 2006 and enlisted about 1.25 crore fake voters during their regime.
Responding to the statements of the BNP leaders, he said the AL had waged a movement for the caretaker government to establish the people’s rights to vote and food but the BNP at that time opposed it.
Claiming that the BNP has stigmatized the caretaker government system, the AL senior leader said, “Why are they going backward now. Actually BNP is not farsighted but it is backward-looking one. Opposing blindly is the only tool of BNP”.
About the BNP’s take-back, the minister said the BNP’s take-back means resuming of their arson and corruption by Hawa Bhaban-Khuab Bhaban.
The AL general secretary said there is no shortage of power generation in the country but there is a crisis of fuel which is prevailing all over the world.
“There was not such crisis before. The government has brought cent percent of the country under the electricity coverage - but the government is still making all efforts to resolve the energy crisis,” he said.
Bd-pratidin English/Lutful Hoque
