Staff Reporter:
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday informed that Awami League’s planned Dhaka rally on December 10 decision was canceled as the Election Commission denied giving permission.
He said the AL is working to ensure a flawless democracy in the country.
“The Awami League is working to ensure a flawless democracy in the country . . . The quarter which wants to foil the polls by enforcing hartal and blockade is not any more a democratic force,” he told newsmen here yesterday.
Quader, also road transport and bridges minister, said this while talking to reporters after paying tributes to Hossain Shaheed Suhrawardy by placing floral wreath at his grave in the capital, on the occasion of his 60th death anniversary.
He added: “I don’t know whether absolutely flawless democracy or any perfect democracy exists any-where in the world. But Bangladesh is working for it.”
The AL is struggling to make the democracy of Bangladesh free from all sorts of defects and it has be-come possible to make an independent situation for the democracy in Bangladesh by dint of the personal efforts of the AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, he observed.
On the Human Rights Day, he said that the AL had a program to hold a big rally at the South Gate of Baitul Mukarram, and now the rally will be held inside respecting the electoral rules.
Paying tributes to the memory of Hossain Shaheed Suhrawardy, Obaidul Quader said, “Hossain Shaheed Suhrawardy, a pioneer of democracy, was a fearless hero of the democracy.”
Suhrawardy fought his whole life for democracy and served in jail many times by Pakistani forces, the AL general secretary added.
Awami League presidium member Dr Abdur Razzaque, joint general secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim, organizing secretary BM Mozammel Haque, office secretary Barrister Biplab Barua, education and hu-man resource affairs secretary Shamsunnahar Chapa, agriculture and cooperatives affairs secretary Fa-ridunnahar Laily, deputy publicity and publication affairs secretary Syed Abdul Awal Shamim, deputy secretary Sayem Khan and executive member Sahabuddin Faraji, among others, were present.
