Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) made a new story about its movement as the party would now wage the movement after the flood, not after Eid.

"...in the past, they waged a movement after Eid or exams. But now they (BNP) want to wage movement after the flood. Some 13 years have passed. When will they wage a movement? ...we have no headache over their movement," he told a cash distribution programme.

AL relief and social welfare subcommittee arranged the function to distribute cheques among the destitute and flood-hit people ahead of holy Eid-ul-Azha.

Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said the language BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam and BNP leaders use on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was not decent one. 

"This is a language of streets (indecent). They talk in indecent language. We talk in the language of politics. This is the difference between them (BNP) and us," he said. 

Standing by people during any crisis period is the history of Awami League, the AL general secretary said, adding that the AL always rushes to disaster-hit areas first to help the affected people.

He said taking a risk Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina went to flood-hit amid heavy rains and storm. "We do not want to say them anything. We will reply them (BNP) through our work," he added.

BDST: 2110 HRS, JULY 5, 2022
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