Staff Reporter :
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Thursday said, there is no scope to include the BNP’s representatives in the Cabinet of the polls-time government because it has no member in the current Parliament.
“In 2014, the government offered them the Home Ministry which was an open secret and everybody
knew about it, but they turned it down. Now there’s no scope for BNP. Even the government has no plan to include BNP in the cabinet of the polls-time government.” Obaidul Quader said.
He said, “This is BNP’s decision whether it will take part in the upcoming national election or not.
“We will congratulate the BNP leaders if the party joins the next polls. But it is not our responsibility to bring them in the polls,” the AL general secretary said, adding that the people will resist them if they want to obstruct the election this time.
He said, “It is their right to participate in the election or not… We’ve nothing to do about it.”
Quader said if BNP thinks that it will unleash the terrorist activities again, then it will be an act of fools. They won’t be able to resist the election, he added
Referring to a remark of BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir about Tarique Rahman’s right to lead the BNP, he said, Tarique has been convicted in graft charges and Khaleda Zia is now in jail for graft. ‘So, it proves that the party is a corrupt one,” he said.
Replying to a query, Obaidul said, “As Tarique Rahman is a convicted accused, the government will try to bring him back.”
