Political identity can't be shield of any wrongdoer: Quader
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader Sunday said the government has a quite strong stance against those involved in irregularities and corruption as it believes that political identity can't be shield of any wrongdoer.
"Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government has a very tough stance against irregularities and corruption and it has recently become evident. Deshratna Sheikh Hasina has tested that political identity cannot be shield of any wrongdoer," he said.
Quader, also Awami League general secretary, was addressing a virtual briefing after joining a normal view-exchange with Gopalganj road zone, BRTC and BRTA officials through videoconferencing from his official residence here.
He said the federal government has carried out self-motivated recent drives against health and other sectors and the casino issue as well as the drives would continue in the times to come.
Pointing to BNP, the minister said Bangladesh became world champion in corruption through the tenure of these who are discussing irregularities.
BNP has recognized itself as a self-acknowledged corrupt political party giving corruption an institutional condition along with scrapping the section relating to corruption from the party’s constitution.
The federal government of Sheikh Hasina, he said, did not make an effort to save any wrongdoer having party identity and because of this the accused in Biswajit murder case didn't get lenience.
Accused in incidents like murders of Abrar of BUET, Rifat Sharif of Barguna and Nusrat of Feni have been taken to justice, he said, questioning to BNP whether they could set any instance like those during their tenures.
Dubbing Sheikh Hasina as the concrete symbol of generosity in the country's political arena, the AL general secretary said she was the prime target of the grenade attacks carried out on August 21 in 2004.
Defying the grief of losing parents and other family in brutal assassinations on August 15 carnage, the prime minister went to the entranceway of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia to console her as she who lost her son, he said, adding that BNP could your investment behavior that they made with the premier there however the AL couldn't.
