BNP should see their own face in mirror: Quader

PBC News:  Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP’s target is to fish in troubled water by creating unrest in the country making an issue over the treatment of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia.

He said this at a press briefing at his official residence in Dhaka.

Quader, also road transport and bridges minister, said BNP wanted to kill the then Opposition Leader Sheikh Hasina through the August 21 grenade attacks in 2004 but the then Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia had said in parliament that Sheikh Hasina herself carried the grenades in her vanity bag, UNB reports.

Pointing to BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, he said this could not be an acceptable comment from a leader of a civilized country.

“Who set example of humanity in the country’s politics? And who are continuing indecent practice and violation of norms in politics,” he questioned Mirza Fakhrul.

Quader said BNP should see their own face in mirror before criticizing the Awami League and the government.

When Bangabandhu’s daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina went to console Begum Zia after her son’s death, BNP had shut the door for the premier.

“How a political party chief of a civilized country can make such inhumane and indecent remarks? Would BNP secretary general reply to this question?” he said.