Fakhrul slams Quader for making personal attack

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday slammed his ruling party counterpart Obaidul Quader for what he said making personal attack and said the people know it very well how the Awami League leaders prospered from rags to riches.

Speaking at a press conference at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, he also said many of the party’s leaders are doing politics with their own earnings or by selling their ancestral property, reports UNB.

The BNP leader alleged that Quader made some objectionable comments about him on Saturday going beyond all moral decency.

“He (Quader) attacked me personally and said we get money from Dubai and I am lying on money. I would like to tell Obaidul Quader, don't push us too hard. Earthworms can come out of the soil while digging,” he warned.

Fakhrul said everyone of Bangladesh knows what the Awami League leaders do and how they make money. "The people of this country know what you have been doing since the creation of Bangladesh. You are going from rags to riches overnight."

He said the people of Bangladesh also have all information about who among the ruling party leaders are making the second homes in Canada, Singapore and Malaysia and who are siphoning off money abroad in many ways.

"We also know who own how many banks and who made how many houses in America…this is the money of taxpayers of this country. You’re looting that money,” the BNP leader taunted.

Fakhrul said this is very unfortunate that the general secretary of a major party made personal attack on his counterpart in an indecent manner. "If you attack on a personal level, you will not be able to deal with it. One day the information about how you plundered public money will be revealed."

Earlier on Saturday, addressing a rally organised on the occasion of the triennial council for Dhaka district AL in the city's Sher-E-Bangla Nagar area, Obaidul Quader alleged that Mirza Fakhrul is receiving funds from foreign countries to launch movements against the government.

"We have received information that Fakhrul is receiving money from Dubai," he added.

Trashing Quader’s allegation, Fakhrul said, “We do politics by selling our ancestral property. We don't do politics with anyone's money. The people of our party and our every member are giving their own money to hold our rallies. This is our characteristics.”

Criticizing the AL general secretary for his comment that their Saturday’s rally was much bigger than that of BNP's in Rangpur, he said the ruling party brought people to their programme by vehicles and using public money, but it could not fill 22,000 chairs kept at the venue. “So, you determine how many people gathered there.”

Fakhrul also questioned as to why the ruling party stop transport movement, let loss its cadres and attack opposition activists to obstruct BNP’s rallies if the party is so stronger.