Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said the BNP is desperate to grab state power, and by any means. “BNP has actually become desperate to capture power by any means, though the election is imminent. It is engaged in ill-attempts to make election and democracy questionable,” Quader said in a statement Friday. Quader, also the Road Transport and Bridges Minister, said BNP should understand that one cannot come to power in a democratic system by giving rhetorical statements without doing anything for the people. He said BNP is not able to present any specific plan before the people to win the next parliamentary election. “BNP leaders continue to give misleading speeches and statements before the nation,” he added. Read: BNP conspires to seize state power, says Obaidul Quader The AL general secretary said the people of the country have successfully faced all the crises under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina for more than a decade. But BNP leaders have been constantly making blatant lies and giving provocative statements to thwart the united efforts of the people to deal with the existing crisis caused by the Russia-Ukraine war, he claimed. “BNP has become a pessimistic political party failing to gain the people's trust. So, BNP leaders are constantly playing a joke with the nation by telling stories of despair,” he said. Qauder said BNP leaders want to damage the self-confidence of the country’s people by comparing Bangladesh with Sri Lanka often. They want to achieve their political interests by spreading confusion among the people of the country, he said. Noting that the basic foundations of the two economies are different, he said, “There is no way to compare Bangladesh and Sri Lanka equally.”