BNP is key barrier to institutionalization of democracy: Quader

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today described BNP as the main barrier on the way of giving democracy an institutional shape in the country.

“Today, democracy is freed. Unless the democracy gets an institutional shape, it is not possible to make it well-established. In true sense, BNP is the key barrier on the way of giving the intuitional shape to democracy,” he said.

Quader came up with the remarks while talking to journalists after paying homage to Shaheed Noor Hossain on behalf of his party at the Noor Hossain Square at Zero Point in Dhaka.

He said a non-communal, progressive and liberal democratic Bangladesh must be established to materialise the dream and aspirations of the 30 lakh martyrs.

Pointing finger at BNP, he said the talk of democracy does not suit in the mouths of BNP leaders as the party was born by patronising the killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

BNP also belongs to the spirit and ideology against the country’s Liberation War, the Awami League leader said.

Quader urged BNP to return to the path of democracy and positive trend of politics shunning the path of hatching conspiracy to destroy the democracy.

About the significance of Noor Hossain Day, he said with the supreme sacrifice, Noor Hossain lit up a fire in the minds of the people to wage movement against the autocracy.

His (Noor) body was a living political poster on that day, Quader added.