BNP unable to come out of darkness: Quader

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s development activities and inclusive politics have pushed BNP’s politics into darkness. And now BNP is unable to come out of this darkness.

He came up with the remark while addressing an iftar and Eid gift distribution ceremony at Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital on Friday morning.

Quader, also road transport and bridges minister, said before the last general elections, BNP lobbied to foreign powers and hatched plots so that sanctions could be imposed on Bangladesh by developed nations and the elections could be foiled.

About an allegation of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul that about 80 percent of BNP leaders and workers are being oppressed and persecuted by the AL government, the AL general secretary said, “I will tell Mirza Fakhrul to refrain from telling such lies. Make list public. Who are these 80 percent activists? Mirza Fakhrul, Mirza Abbas and Amir Khusru all went out of jail gradually.”

AL joint general secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim, organising secretary Sujit Roy Nandi, industry and commerce secretary Siddiqur Rahman, among others, spoke at the iftar and Eid items distribution ceremony with AL's relief and social welfare secretary Aminul Islam Amin in the chair.