Staff Reporter:
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has the courage to bring corrupt people to justice.
He said this while addressing a representatives’ meeting at the party’s Dhaka district office in the capi-tal’s Tejgaon. Dhaka City North AL arranged the meeting to observe the historic Six-Point Day and AL’s founding anniversary.
Quader said former IGP Benazir Ahmed and ex- army chief Aziz Ahmed are not anyone of AL. They became chiefs of their respective forces with their own capability, he added.
If their wrongdoings are found, Sheikh Hasina has courage to bring them to book, he said.
The AL general secretary said his party didn’t bring anyone on big positions of police, army, RAB or administrations by violating the discipline.
On the other hand, Begum Khaleda Zia made Moeen Uddin Ahmed, who was in number nine in order, as the army chief by violating the disciplines.
“Who had created former IGP Shamsul Huda, SP Kohinur? he questioned adding Mirza Fakhrul might have forgotten BNP acting chief is a fugitive convict.
On the other hand, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is well-known as an honest politician at home and abroad and there is no scope to raise question about her honesty, he said.
But BNP chief Khaleda Zia has been sentenced on corruption charges, he said adding that her jail term has been suspended and she can receive treatment staying at home due to the generosity of Prime Minis-ter Sheikh Hasina.
“This BNP is now talking about corruption and money laundering,” Quader said.
Terming BNP as the father of criminals, he said this party is trying to present their corrupt fugitive con-vict leader Tarique Rahman as a good person.
Quader said Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) and Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (SHUJAN) make comments on the same tone of BNP.
He questioned whether TIB and SHUJAN are B-team of BNP?.
Highlighting different development works of the government, the minister said Bangladesh has made an unprecedented progress in the last 15 years.
During the tenure of AL government, Padma Bridge, metro-rail, elevated expressway and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel beneath Karnaphuli river in Chattogram have been built.
Dhaka City North AL president Sheikh Bazlur Rahman chaired the meeting which was moderated by its general secretary SM Mannan Kachi.
