Staff Correspondent:

Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader said that Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) wanted to seize the state power satisfying its foreign masters. They do not consider the general people as the main source of power.

He said these things after paying tributes at the tomb of Sher Bangla AK Fazlul Haque on the occasion of his 62nd death anniversary yesterday morning.

Obaidul Quader said I don’t think BNP is a democratic party. There is no precedent for establishing democracy in their history. They have killed democracy and turned it into a farce. They never obeyed the democratic rules even within the party. When did they form the party council? They had a central committee meeting at La Méridien 7-8 years ago.

He said that the national leader Shere Bangla was one of those who brought politics to the common people in this country. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman inspired the common people for freedom. The farmers of rural Bengal will never forget Sher E Bangla. He will forever be remembered among them. He is still remembered for protecting usury moneylenders from tyranny by setting up the State and Debt Arbitration Board.