No country has perfect democracy: Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has remarked that no country in the world has perfect democracy.

"We don't claim that our country's democracy is perfect. But we are trying to make it perfect and the Prime Minister is sincere in this regard," he said.

Obaidul Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said this in a press briefing at Awami League president's Dhanmondi office in Dhaka on Friday.

Mentioning that Hawa Bhaban was a place of corruption and looting during the BNP regime and now it talks about graft, he questioned, "Did BNP punish anyone of the party for corruption at that time?"

There was a curfew democracy during the BNP-led government and the word of democracy in their mouth is like the "devil listening to the scriptures", he said.

Referring to BNP leaders' claim that the AL government is ruining the country's economy, the minister said the economy of the whole world is worse and Bangladesh is continuing to maintain a balance amid this.

"If the country's economy is destroyed, why do the IMF and World Bank support Bangladesh as a country of possibilities, I want to remind Mirza Fakhrul that," he added.

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