Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges
Minister Obaidul Quader today said Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina has saved the country from the reign
of the plundering, carried out by BNP during its
period, leading the country to destruction.
He said the proposed budget for fiscal 2024-25 has
been announced to check the looting of the top
corrupt, while Sheikh Hasina had saved the nation
from the reign of looting that was created during
the BNP’s period.
“No one can get relief in the country after carrying
out looting,” Quader told a joint meeting organised
at the AL Bangabandhu Avenue central office here.
The joint meeting was held with the AL central
leaders and the presidents and general secretaries
of Dhaka North and South City units of AL, its
Dhaka district unit and all affiliated organisations.
Speaking at the meeting, the AL general secretary
said BNP does not have the courage to ensure
punishment for its own people.
“Who held the trial of Buet student Soni killing
case? And those who awarded death penalty in
Abrar killing were all Chattra League men. Was not
the trial of Biswajit murder case held? Did BNP
hold trial of its any leader during their time?” he
questioned.
Claiming that there is no need to make new laws to
bringing the corrupt to justice, while it is quite
possible to book them with existing laws, Quader
said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has already
vowed that no corrupt would be spared.
About the criticism over giving scopes of whitening
black money in the proposed budget, he said BNP
chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and its late leader
Saifur Rahman whitened black money. This
proposed budget has been announced to stop
looting by big-shots, he added.
Issuing warning that former inspector general of
police Benazir Ahmed and former army chief Aziz
Ahmed will not be exempted from corruption
charges, Quader said they are not AL men, while
one was police officer and another was army
officer.
“BNP introduced the culture of impunity, but we
did not do so,” he added.
Regarding the programme of the AL founding
anniversary, the AL general secretary said the
programmes adopted on the 75th founding
anniversary of the AL will be observed from the
ward level to national level.
In the morning of June 23, floral tribute will be
paid to the portrait of Father of the Nation
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, he said.
The AL general secretary said Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the event to be held
on June 23 next, while a rally will be held at
Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital.
AL presidium members Jahangir Kabir Nanak, its
joint general secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif and
AFM Bahauddin Nasim, organising secretaries BM
Mozammel Haque, SM Kamal Hossain, Mirza
Azam and Sujit Roy Nandi and deputy office
secretary Sayem Khan, among others, were present
at the meeting. (BSS)
