Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday said that the BNP is losing interest in elections after its defeat in all recent polls.

He was responding to BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam’s latest allegation that “the election system of the country has completely collapsed."

At a regular briefing at his official residence this morning Quader blasted BNP for attacking the government and the Election Commission for their failures in both movement and ballots.

The Election Commission is a constitutional body and it is now playing an independent and authoritative role, he said.

Obaidul Quader, who is also Road Transport and Bridges Minister, said the BNP came to the polls only to make the Election Commission and the electoral system questionable.

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He further said that the people have turned away from the BNP as they have understood this ploy.

Saying that no one can break the record of BNP's history of rigging, the Awami League leader wondered how the opposition party can now raise questions about the election system.

Obaidul Quader also commented on Mirza Fakhrul’s remarks about journalist Rozina Islam’s bail.

Has Mirza Fakhrul  any specific information about this, he asked. 

Obaidul said that such imaginary allegations are making the country’s independent judiciary questionable.

He also said the BNP has so far spread lies against the government and now it is speaking against the court which is tantamount to contempt.

Passport is a travel document and identity, nothing else, it is not a document of foreign policy or geopolitical book, he said referring to Mirza Fakhrul’s comment on court’s order to surrender Rozina’s passport.

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One’s passport has no relationship with world of politics, Quader said .

The government has introduced  e-passport as it is now popular all over the world, he said.

The general secretary of the Awami League wondered that it was not clear why Mirza Fakhrul was making such a fictitious allegation about passport and foreign relations.

Earlier in the day Obaidul Quader received the second dose of corona vaccine at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.