Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday blamed BNP for patronizing communal forces, noting that the people would give a befitting reply to the party through ballots in the next parliament election in case of BNP’s continuation of harbouring evil forces.
"Stop patronizing communal forces. You should not repeat the mistake you did in 2014," he urged BNP at a preparatory meeting at the Nagar Bhaban organized by Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) for making successful the Awami League's public rally on March 7.
DSCC Mayor Sayeed Khokon chaired the meeting, addressed, among others, by Awami League Organising Secretary Barrister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury Nowfel and Dhaka City South Awami League General Secretary Shahe Alam Murad.
Quader, also Road Transport and Bridges Minister, said the attacker of eminent writer and educationist Professor Mohammed Zafar Iqbal was a member of target killing group and a fanatic. He said a political party named BNP patronizes such radical forces.
On 7th March Speech of Bangabandhu, the AL general secretary said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had proclaimed the independence of Bangladesh in the true sense of the term in his landmark speech at the Race Course on March 7, 1971. Formal proclamation of independence of Bangladesh was made by Bangabandhu on March 25, the minister added.
Quader said BNP founder Ziaur Rahman himself had written in an article that "Bangabandhu's 7th March Speech was a green signal for us" for waging the Liberation War. Regrettably, he said, the BNP now neither respects the 7th March Speech nor observes the day.
The AL general secretary said when BNP was in power, the party had banned the 7th March Speech of Bangabandhu and "many of our leaders had to bear untold sufferings for playing the speech".
He said the United Nations Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has registered the epoch-making speech of Bangabandhu as a world documentary heritage, a pride for the country.
The Awami League's rally on March 7 bears immense significance, Quader said.
Source:BSS