Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday observed that the politics of voting is very complex in Bangladesh.
“Some mega projects will be inaugurated next year and then the BNP will be dazed. The politics of voting is very complex in Bangladesh. The people of the country want development now,” he said.
The AL leader came up with the observation while addressing a meeting arranged by the AL agriculture and cooperatives affairs sub-committee at the party's Bangabandhu Avenue central office, marking the 75th birthday of AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said the people want to see a person with good characteristic in power and she is the Prime Minister and Bangabandhu's daughter, Sheikh Hasina.
He also said there is no alternative to Sheikh Hasina in the country's politics. “If the BNP selects a convicted fugitive staying on the bank of Thames River in London as its leader, the country's people will not accept him,” he said.
The spokesperson for the party called upon the AL leaders and workers to take lessons from the life of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
He added: “Look at the family of Bangabandhu. When Bangabandhu was in jail, how his family was run and how Begum Mujib took care of a family. Read this history. Take lessons from the history. Bangabandhu's family is a unique example of the honest politics. We have to take lessons from it.”
Quader also alleged that the BNP is seeing day dream that the government will be ousted through a movement, Quader said if the BNP repeats the episodes of its arson terrorism, the party will further lag behind.
The meeting was addressed, among others, by AL presidium member Begum Matia Chowdhury and joint general secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim with AL subcommittee chairman Dr Mirza Abdul Jalil in the chair.