DHAKA : Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said BNP leaders are maintaining double standard over democracy.
“BNP made farce in the name of multi-party democracy. As BNP lost people’s confidence, the party is now unimportant to people,” he said.
Quader was addressing a ceremony of relief items distribution on behalf of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina marking the holy Mahe Ramadan at AL’s Bangabandhu Avenue central office here.
AL’s Sub Committee on Relief and Social Welfare arranged the programme of distribution of iftar items for orphans, disabled and distressed people and cash money distribution for family of deceased Umama Begum Kanak and cancer patients.
The AL general secretary said the global market is going through fuel and food crisis. People of Bangladesh are still remaining well amid such situation, he added. After the 1975, no other government runs the country as good as incumbent Awami League, he said.
Noting that small flaws could occur in running government, he said AL took ahead the country overcoming all types of odds. But BNP leaders can only criticize, he added.
About BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s comment that AL enforced one-party government system in country, Quader said the people didn’t yet forget how BNP made farce in the name of multiparty democracy.
BNP’s multiparty democracy was actually a multi-party farce, he said.
The minister said the talks of democracy don’t suit Mirza Fakhrul as he didn’t join parliament even after being elected in polls. Noting that the Padma Bridge can be inaugurated in June this year, he said the works of the Padma Bridge are being done with cent percent honesty and the much-anticipated bridge is being constructed without receiving any foreign loan.
Quader said Bangladesh didn’t become debt defaulter during the present government and it won’t be in future too but the country became defaulter for more than once during the rule of other governments.
About the next general elections, he said the next national polls will be held in Bangladesh as like as other democratic countries.
Elections will be held under the Election Commission while the government will only extend cooperation to the commission in holding the polls in free and fair manner, he mentioned.
Law and order and administration will remain under the Election Commission during polls, he said.
AL Presidium Member Begum Matia Chowdhury chaired the function while AL Organizing Secretary Ahmed Hossain, Relief and Social Welfare Secretary Sujit Roy Nandi, Education and Human Resources Secretary Samsun Nahar Chapa, Central Working Committee Member Sanjida Khanam, Dhaka City AL South AL acting President Nurul Amin Ruhul and general secretary Md Humayun Kabir were present, among others.