Online Desk: It is up to the court whether BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will be able to do politics or no, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said. BNP is doing politics over the illness of Khaleda Zia, said Quader, also the Road Transport and Bridges Minister, while addressing at a discussion in front of Bangabandhu Bhaban at Dhanmondi in Dhaka on Monday, marking 54th anniversary of Bangladesh Mohila Awami League.

He said allowing BNP to assume power and letting Bangladesh turn into Afghanistan is the same thing. This is the party whose hands were stained with the blood of 26,000 AL leaders and activists, the AL general secretary said, questioning why BNP would be allowed to go to state power as it established militancy in the country. About the BNP’s leadership, he said who is BNP’s chief is not the AL’s headache. “The decision on Khaleda Zia was the court’s and it is up to the court whether she will be able to do politics or not,” he said.

Chaired by Bangladesh Mohila Awami League president Meher Afroz Chumki, the meeting was addressed, among others, by AL office secretary Biplab Barua, women affairs secretary Jahanara Begum, former president of Mohila AL and its former general secretary Mahmuda Begum Creek. Mohila Awami League general secretary Shabnam Jahan Shila moderated it.