Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said the recent mammoth public meeting at Rangpur further proved that the united Awami League (AL) can overcome all impossible.
“Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s mammoth public meeting on August 2 last in Rangpur had turned into a human sea . . . The united Awami league can overcome all impossible,” Dr Hasan, also ruling AL Joint General Secretary told a meeting with the members of parliament (MPs) elected from Rangpur division, president and general secretaries of district-upzilla and municipality units of AL at party’s Bangabandhu Avenue central office this evening.
The minister added: “This huge gathering has proved two things – Rangpur today is not for anyone as it has become the fort of Awami League and It can achieve the impossible tasks, if it remains united, you can make the impossible possible.”
Thanking all concerned of the party for this historic event, the senior AL leader called upon party leaders and ‘workers to keep this momentum going in days to come in the betterment of the party as well as countrymen.
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi, Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan, Social Welfare Minister Nuruzzaman Ahmed, AL Organizing Secretary Sujit Roy Nandi, MPs of Rangpur Division and leaders of local units of party also spoke there.
Referring to the BNP’s recent programme, Dr Hasan said a few days back BNP resorted to sabotage acts against the government by attacking on police and AL workers and subsequently they fled away.
“BNP has now been named as the Bangladesh Nashokota (destructive) Party”, the broadcasting minister said, adding that the Canadian court has recently ruled out BNP as a ‘terrorist organization’ for the fifth time and now no BNP man would be granted political asylum in Canada while BNP has nothing to say about it.
About Amnesty International’s recent statement asking for not to use forces in the opposition party’s protests, the AL leader said they (Amnesty) did not say anything on them about attacking people, torching vehicles and houses.
Noting that former Secretary General of the Amnesty International Irene Khan was Tareque’s beyain (sister-in-law), the minister said so it is easy to predict what the organization would say.
“The Amnesty International’s statement is nothing but a sheet of paper as it doesn’t say anything when Israeli soldiers opened fire on people and set fire on vehicles and houses in retaliation of pelting stones by the Palestinian children there,” he mentioned with grave concern.
The information minister added that this Amnesty International made a statement to stop the prosecution of war criminals against humanity in Bangladesh, making it a biased worthless organization.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha