UNB, Dhaka :
Appreciating BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia for her ‘realisation’ that a movement cannot be waged by fixing a timeframe, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Wednesday said she has borrowed the political term from the ruling Awami League.
“This is our notion …. I congratulate her (Khaleda) for realising that any movement can’t be launched by setting a deadline,” he said. Tofail was talking to reporters at his office after exchanging greetings with the officials and employees of his ministry on the first workday after the Eid holiday.
While exchanging Eid greetings at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on Monday, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia said her party would announce the anti-government programmes when it is high time.
“The time looms close. A movement can’t be forged by fixing a timeframe. We’re in the movement and will be in it. I’ll call for a movement when it’s high time. The country’s people will join us then. This government must go,” she said.
Tofail said the BNP chief had continued to issue ultimatums one after another but she had never been able to implement any of those. Noting that Khaleda had earlier announced to launch a movement after Eid-ul-Azha, he said, “As she failed to wage the movement, she is now talking like this only to pacify his activists.”
The minister also claimed that the prices of daily essentials, including spices, were normal during Durga Puja and Eid-ul-Azha. Claiming that there had been no sign of poverty across the country during the Eid celebrations, he said: “This has proved that Bangladesh is turning into a middle-income country.”
