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Pointing to BNP, Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Sunday said none can come to power by hurling petrol bombs, burning people, setting fire to properties and even burning the Holy Qur'an, reports BSS.
Dr Hasan said, "It is not possible for them (BNP) to come to power by burning people's wealth and even the Holy 'Qur'an'. Because of these reasons, there is no possibility of BNP to come to power."
He was talking to the reporters after inaugurating a photo exhibition as the chief guest marking the 48th martyrdom anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman organized by Press Information Department (PID) at the Bangladesh Secretariat.
In response to BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's statement - 'If BNP does not come to power in the next elections, the country will go back 50 years and it will be destroyed', Hasan Mahmud said BNP will go back 50 years if it does not join the next elections and it will be difficult for them to survive as a party.
The minister also said the whole world is appreciating the way the country has progressed in the last 14 and half years.
The Secretary General of the United Nations, the Prime Minister of India, the President of the United States, the Chief Economist and President of the World Bank, different statesmen and the top newspapers of the world also praised Bangladesh for its development spree, he added.
It is sad but true that BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul or his other leaders do not see that, he said, adding that it is the wretchedness of their consciousness, the unhappiness of politics and the pretense of not seeing it, he added.
Bd-pratidin English/Golam Rosul
