The Daily Morning Voice Online Desk: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said if the BNP assumes power again, there will be no spirit of the Liberation War left in the country. “We cannot hand over power to the BNP, which is the patron of communal forces and militancy,” he said. He made the remarks while joining a discussion organised in the city by Dhaka Metropolitan South Awami League unit to commemorate the “Homecoming Day” of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after Bangladesh gained victory over Pakistan in 1971.

Bangabandhu returned to Dhaka via London and New Delhi on January 10 in 1972 after being freed from jail in Pakistan. Quader said another name for Bangladesh is Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Bangabandhu will remain alive as long as this land exists, he added. Pointing to the BNP’s mass sit-ins today, he bitterly criticised the opposition party and said 54 parties have joined hands against Sheikh Hasina. “[But] What will the 54 parties do? They can’t do anything,” he said.

Criticising local media, Quader said he could not stay at home even for 50 days during the BNP regime. “Two BNP leaders had been in jail for 26 days. Some media outlets are writing in a way as if they had been in jail for 26 thousand years,” he said. Quader said there will be a game “against corruption, looting and misrule” of BNP. He said that Hasina has “repaired what the BNP had destroyed while in power”. “Sheikh Hasina inaugurated hundreds of bridges and hundreds of roads in one day. Sheikh Hasina can, only Sheikh Hasina can. Let us strengthen her hands,” he said.