Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today (August 8) called for resisting the BNP terming it as an 'evil force'.

He also said BNP is the 'mastermind' of killings and conspiracies in Bangladesh.

Quader also General Secretary of Awami League told the reporters after paying homage to Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib at the Banani graveyard in the capital marking her 93rd birth anniversary this morning.

The minister said, "We must resist the evil force like BNP so that the democracy, liberation war of the country could be protected and also for saving non- communal sense of humanity as well." 

Obaidul Quader said that the politics of brutal carnage and conspiracies which once started in the country in 1975 with the assassination of Bangabandhu on August 15, murdering of four national leaders on November 3 and the grenade attack on August 21 in 2004, in which Bangabandhu's daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was the main target.

Even the murder of 23 people including noted Awami League leader Ivy Rahman, only BNP is the party behind all those killings, Quader said, adding: "BNP is the mastermind of killings and conspiracies in Bangladesh."

BDST: 1525 HRS, AUGUST 08, 2023
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