DHAKA, March 20, 2022 (BSS) - Awami League General Secretary and Road 
Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said the country's 
independence, sovereignty and democracy is protected in the hands of only the 
Awami League.
 
"Awami League, under the leadership of Bangabandhu's daughter Prime Minister 
Sheikh Hasina, has been playing a pioneering role in expansion and progress 
of democracy for long," he said. 
 
Quader said BNP was born under military dictatorship by "killing the 
country's independence-sovereignty and democracy".
 
BNP founder military dictator Ziaur Rahman had damaged the country's 
Constitution severely after seizing state power in an unconstitutional and 
illegal way and imposed Indemnity Ordinance to safeguard the killers of 
Bangabandhu and four national leaders, he said in a statement in protest 
against BNP leaders' nonstop falsehood and propaganda.
 
In reply to BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's comment that 
AL and democracy don't go together, he said: "I want to say Mirza Fakhrul 
that Awami League is the party which led the country's independence and the 
great Liberation War. Under Bangabandhu's daughter Awami League President 
Sheikh Hasina's leadership, democracy was restored in Bangladesh through the 
demolition of long autocratic rule."
 
He said a huge number of leaders and workers of AL made supreme sacrifice for 
attaining the country's autonomy, independence, freedom, sovereignty and 
establishing democracy.
 
Sheikh Hasina reinstated democratic values from the hands of autocratic 
rulers wearing masks of democracy.
 
He said AL remains ahead of any other political party in terms of practising 
internal democracy.
 
On the other hand, BNP has always apathy in practising democracy and even 
they remained confused in going to parliament after being elected MPs in 
people's vote, he mentioned.
 
Although the BNP secretary general didn't join parliament even after being 
elected an MP, the party has representation in the House, he said.
 
 
The minister said it has been proved that such puzzled political leadership, 
which is unable to take a decision, has no capability to make the welfare of 
the country.
 
He said the people's fortune has developed a lot and the country has made 
tremendous progress under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh 
Hasina.
 
Witnessing the development, BNP leaders are becoming frustrated and making 
absurd comments continuously, he mentioned.