BNP’s threat to oust govt is ’blank shot’: Obaidul Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said the BNP's threat of so-called mass upsurge to overthrow the incumbent government is nothing but a "blank shot" of its leaders.

"In the last one decade, BNP leaders, including Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, were talking about the fall of the government through so-called mass uprising and were threatening that the Awami League leaders and workers would have to face dire consequences like the 2001-to-2006 situation," he said in a statement.

Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said he strongly condemned and protested the continuous falsehood and propaganda of the BNP leaders, including BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.

Noting that the country's people will not be misled due to the BNP's falsehood, he said the people have strongly rejected the BNP leaders as they are involved in various anti-state conspiracies at national and international levels in implementation of their plot to oust the government.