Dhaka, Mar 10: Ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said whether Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia would be able to do politics and join polls depends on the court’s decision.
‘Khaleda Zia is now out of jail on humanitarian ground. Her conviction was not withdrawn. Her jail sentence has been postponed on humanitarian ground,’ he told a function in the city.
The function was arranged on the occasion of the golden jubilee of Dhaka University’s Haji Muhammad Mohsin Hall and reunion of its Alumni Association.
Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, repeated that it is up to the court’s decision whether Khaleda Zia would be able to do politics and join polls or not.
About the BNP’s movement, the AL general secretary said that the BNP’s movement had witnessed ebb while its leaders and workers have become senseless and are now talking nonsense. ‘People have rejected BNP,’ he added.
Responding to a statement of BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Quader said that the AL never practised the politics of luxury but the BNP does ‘pocket politics’.
Chaired by Mohsin Hall Alumni Association president Professor Dr Md Nizamul Haque Bhuiyan, the function was attended, among others, by DU vice-president Professor Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman, former chairman of University Grants Commission Professor Abdul Mannan, lawmaker Mujibul Haque Chunnu, cabinet secretary Md Mahbub Hossain, DU pro-vice chancellor Professor Abdus Samad and its treasurer Professor Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed and Sommilito Sangskritik Jote’s Golam Quddus.
