BNP doesn't want the Padma Bridge: Hasan

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Sunday said BNP is so much ashamed as the Padma Bridge has been constructed despite all ill efforts of the party.

"BNP doesn't want the Padma Bridge. But all people of the country are delighted and they are waiting for the inauguration of the bridge. And the people will crowd along the six kilometers of the approach road of the both sides of the bridge if they are allowed to go there," he said.

The minister stated these while replying to a query at the meeting room of his ministry at Secretariat in the city.

But, Hasan said, BNP wants to create anarchy to suppress people's enthusiasm over Padma Bridge. They terrorized at Dhaka University, in front of the Supreme Court and other places of the country in the name of movement to divert the people's attention, he added.

He said BNP is trying to create an unstable situation, vandalize vehicles, and launch arson attack. Such anarchy will be resisted taking the help of the commoners, he added.

The minister said Tareque Rahman and even Begum Khaleda Zia will be responsible if any type of anarchy such arson attack, terrorism or vandalism takes place under the leadership of BNP. So, a question has been raised whether BNP chief Begum Zia will be sent back to prison, he added.