Democracy wins thru municipal polls: Quader
Obaidul Quader, road transport and bridges minister and a presidium member of the ruling Awami League, yesterday said that the people reasserted their commitment to democracy in Wednesdays municipal election and that the popular system has won through the polls. The countrys two major political parties, AL and BNP, joined Wednesdays municipal elections but no party was defeated. I will say that democracy won through the polls, Quader said. He was talking to reporters after visiting the Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Mahipal intersection in Feni.
Extending thanks to BNP, the minister expressed hope that the BNP will join the next parliamentary elections like the municipality polls. Had they (BNP) joined the January 5 elections in 2014, they would not face such debacle, he added.
When questioned about the suspension of AL rebel candidates, Quader said they have been suspended temporally. The AL Central Working Committee will take decision in this regard in its next meeting, he stated. At a separate programme in the capital, AL advisory council member Suranjit Sengupta called upon BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to return to healthy politics shunning the path of violence. He said the country will move ahead faster than the previous years, if Khaleda Zia returns to healthy politics shunning the politics of petrol bombs.
