Movement for Khaleda's bail goes against court order: Quader

Ruling Bangladesh Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said befitting reply will be given to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) if it carries out terrorist activities in the name of movement, reports BSS.

“The government is monitoring the BNP’s activities with tolerance. If the party takes the government's tolerance as weakness, they will suffer for that,” he told newsmen after a meeting with mayors-elect of Dhaka south and north city corporations and MPs at AL president’s Dhanmondi political office in the capital.

Quader, also road transport and bridges minister, said it was the jurisdiction of the court to give bail to BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia.

Neither the government lodged the lawsuit against Khaleda Zia nor it has the jurisdiction to give her bail, he said adding that the case was filed against Khaleda Zia during the period of last caretaker government.

Quader said if the BNP now wages movement for Khaleda Zia’s bail it will go against the court.

“There is no unity inside the BNP. How they will wage movement?” he asked.

Quader said the BNP is now out to spread hatred against the Dhaka city polls after it failed to win the elections.

The AL general secretary said his party will be strengthened further at the grassroot level to resist the BNP’s anti-government activities.