BNP wants to turn quota protests into anti-govt movement: Quader

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Thursday said BNP wants to turn the quota protests into anti-government movement but Awami League would never allow them to do it.

He said, “We will face it politically if anyone tries to give the anti-quota movement a political shape.”

Quader, also road transport and bridges minister, said this while addressing a press briefing at the AL President’s Office in Dhaka's Dhanmondi.

He said the government must take legal actions if anyone tries to capitalize on the emotion of innocent students and tries to create anarchy across the country.

The AL general secretary urged the students, who are agitating to scrap the quota system in government service, to go back to their respective educational institutions stopping their movement that creates huge public sufferings.

He said the women have gone backward in absence of quota system in the last five years. The ethnic groups also suffered a lot. Quota system plays an important role in building the state system on basis of diversity and equality.

Quota does not create discrimination rather it is needed in some sectors to resolve the discrimination. The highest court has given a status quo for four weeks over the quota system, he added.

Source: BSS