DHAKA, Sept 30, 2022 (BSS) - Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader 
today said the AL was born in the soil and that is why its roots have 
deepened into the soil.
 
"Our knees will not break down; our waists will not fracture. The Awami 
League was born in this soil.....Awami League is a party that emerged from 
this soil," he told a discussion at Bangla Academy auditorium here. 
 
The AL's relief and social welfare subcommittee arranged the meeting on the 
occasion of the birthday of AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
 
"Our roots lay deep into the soil of the country. The waist of a person who 
is born in this soil will not break. I did not make any mistake, but Fakhrul 
(BNP secretary general) did so," Quader said.
 
Responding to a statement of BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam 
Alamgir that stated the AL's knee has broken down, the AL general secretary 
said: "I stated at a function at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre 
the day before yesterday that the waist-broken BNP is running by depending on 
scratch and the Fakhrul has replied to it."
 
"Mirza Fakhrul may forget. This was not my own statement. Think-tank 
Zafrullah Chowdhury repeatedly termed the BNP a knee- and waist-broken one. I 
just recalled him (Fakhrul)," Quader said.
 
Highlighting the development and achievements of Prime Minister Sheikh 
Hasina's government, he said: "The Bangladesh of 13 years ago and today's 
Bangladesh is not the same...Sheikh Hasina was born to change the fortune of 
the countrymen." 

Chaired by AL presidium member Matia Chowdhury, the meeting was addressed, 
among others, by party presidium member Abdur Rahman, Bangla Academy director 
general poet Nurul Huda, AL agriculture and cooperative affairs secretary 
Faridunnahar Laili, relief and social welfare secretary Sujit Roy Nandi and 
central committee member Marufa Akhtar Popy.