BNP will have to suffer: Quader

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that BNP will have to suffer for not participating in the 12th national election.

Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, made the remark at a press conference at AL President’s Dhanmondi political office on Monday.

BNP is going to resort to terrorist acts in the name of ‘black flag program’, but no evil force will be tolerated for the sack of the country’s interest.

 “They (BNP) are the enemy of democracy and liberation war. After the killing of Bangabandhu, they gobbled up the real history of the liberation war, but they finally did not succeed,” he said.

The AL general secretary said peaceful movement is the beauty of democracy, so the AL has announced a programme alongside the BNP's one.

On October 28 in 2023, he said, BNP men killed a cop in daylight and carried out attacks on the chief justice's residence, hospital and journalists, and the country's people have not forgotten it yet. 

He said BNP tried to mislead the nation by bypassing the true history of the liberation war and spreading false information after the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, but its ill-attempt was not successful.

AL organising secretaries BM Mozammel Haque, SM Kamal Hossain, Mirza Azam and Sujit Roy Nandi, its cultural affairs secretary Asim Kumar Ukil, health affairs secretary Dr Rokeya Sultana and deputy office secretary Sayem Khan, among others, were present.