AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader. Photo: Collected
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday (17 May) said Bangabandhu's daughter Sheikh Hasina's homecoming was the restoration of the lost values of the Liberation War.
He was addressing a discussion at AL's Dhaka district unit office at Tejgaon marking the 44th Homecoming Day of AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Quader said Sheikh Hasina is a name of the most courageous politician, prudent leader, efficient administrator, popular leader and successful diplomat in the last 44 years history of Bangladesh.
"Sheikh Hasina is the architect of the changed Bangladesh. Bangabandhu was poet of politics and Sheikh Hasina is magic of politics. Sheikh Hasina's homecoming was the restoration of the lost values of the Liberation War," he said.
The AL general secretary said BNP is constantly making attacking comments against AL as the party (BNP) gets perplexed. "Ziaur Rahman had imprisoned 62,000 leaders and workers of AL and others parties, he said, adding, "How many leaders of BNP are now in jail?"
Ziaur Rahman, Quader said, had abducted AL's 3,000 leaders and workers and government officials. Many say that Bangabandhu pardoned anti-liberation elements, which is not true, he added.
He said during the tenure of Bangabandhu, 11,000 people who opposed the country's independence were in jail, while Ziaur Rahman freed them and among them 713 were involved with crimes against humanity.
About BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's comment that neighboring country is controlling the country, Quader said none can control Sheikh Hasina. "The people and the country's constitution govern us," he said.
AL Presidium Member Engineer Mosharraf Hossain chaired the discussion while Presidium Members Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Bir Bikram, and Jahangir Kabir Nanak, poet Nirmalendu Goon, AL Joint General Secretaries-Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud, Mahbubul Alam Hanif, AFM Bahauddin Nasim and Dr Dipu Moni, Organizing Secretary Mirza Azam, martyr Altaf Mahmud's daughter Shawan Mahmud, martyred intellectual Abdul Alim's daughter Dr Nuzhat Chowdhury, Dhaka District AL President Benzir Ahmed and AL's Dhaka City South unit president Abu Ahmed Mannafi also spoke, among others.
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