BNP making silly remarks to escape public wrath: Hanif

Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif yesterday said leaders of BNP could not take part in campaigning in the just concluded pourasabha (municipal) polls to escape public wrath that was created by derogatory remarks of their chairman Begum Khaleda Zia on the figure of liberation war martyrs, reports BSS.
“For this, BNP suffered the polls debacle while Awami League secured a landslide victory. BNP leaders have been uttering ridiculous, irrelevant comments to avoid public wrath,” he said.
Hanif said this in reply to recent remarks of BNP leader Rizvi Ahmed at a press conference emerging from a joint meeting at the political office of Awami League president Sheikh Hasina at Dhanmondi in the city. The joint meeting between Awami League of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was convened to make party programme on Bangabandhu’s Homecoming Day on January 10 a success.
In reply to a question, the Awami League leader said, “Today Islami Oikya Jote announced severing its relations with BNP-led 20-party combine. Not only Islami Oikya Jote, leaders and workers of BNP have also been deserting their party for faulty politics of its chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia. Other allies of the combine will soon follow suit.”
When asked about Awami League government’s stance on the current diplomatic relations between Bangladesh and Pakistan, Hanif said, “Bangladesh’s relations with Pakistan had been severed years back in 1971. There’s no difference between severing or not the relations with a failed state like Pakistan.” Awami League presidium member Obaidul Quader presided over the meeting, also attended, among others, by AL organising secretaries Ahmed Hossain and BM Mozammel Haque, agriculture affairs secretary Dr Abdur Razzak, information and research affairs secretary Advocate Afzal Hossain and labour affairs secretary Habibur Rahman Siraj.

 

BNP making silly remarks to escape public wrath: Hanif

Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif yesterday said leaders of BNP could not take part in campaigning in the just concluded pourasabha (municipal) polls to escape public wrath that was created by derogatory remarks of their chairman Begum Khaleda Zia on the figure of liberation war martyrs, reports BSS. For this, BNP suffered the polls debacle while Awami League secured a landslide victory. BNP leaders have been uttering ridiculous, irrelevant comments to avoid public wrath, he said. Hanif said this in reply to recent remarks of BNP leader Rizvi Ahmed at a press conference emerging from a joint meeting at the political office of Awami League president Sheikh Hasina at Dhanmondi in the city. The joint meeting between Awami League of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was convened to make party programme on Bangabandhus Homecoming Day on January 10 a success. In reply to a question, the Awami League leader said, Today Islami Oikya Jote announced severing its relations with BNP-led 20-party combine. Not only Islami Oikya Jote, leaders and workers of BNP have also been deserting their party for faulty politics of its chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia. Other allies of the combine will soon follow suit. When asked about Awami League governments stance on the current diplomatic relations between Bangladesh and Pakistan, Hanif said, Bangladeshs relations with Pakistan had been severed years back in 1971. Theres no difference between severing or not the relations with a failed state like Pakistan. Awami League presidium member Obaidul Quader presided over the meeting, also attended, among others, by AL organising secretaries Ahmed Hossain and BM Mozammel Haque, agriculture affairs secretary Dr Abdur Razzak, information and research affairs secretary Advocate Afzal Hossain and labour affairs secretary Habibur Rahman Siraj.