Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said there is no scope for BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia to do politics as she has been convicted in graft cases.
"Why has Khaleda Zia's jail sentence been suspended? She is sick. If she was not ill, she would have been in jail. A convict has no scope to do politics," Quader said while replying to journalists during a joint meeting of Awami League at its Bangabandhu Avenue central office in the capital on Thursday.
The joint meeting was held between Awami League central leaders and presidents and general secretaries of Dhaka city north and south units and associate bodies of the party.
Obaidul Quader said Khaleda Zia didn't get release from his jail sentence. But her jail sentence has been suspended several times on humanitarian grounds, he said, adding that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina showed the generosity, reports BSS.
BNP also knew it very well that there is no scope for Khaleda Zia to do politics and that is why they made the party's senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman as its acting chairman, added the minister.
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