Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said there is no scope for BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia to do politics as she has been convicted in graft cases.
"Why has Khaleda Zia's jail sentence been suspended? She is sick. If she was not ill, she would have been in jail. A convict has no scope to do politics," he said while replying to journalists during a joint meeting of AL at its Bangabandhu Avenue central office in the capital.
The joint meeting was held between AL central leaders and presidents and general secretaries of Dhaka city north and south units and associate bodies of AL.
Quader said Khaleda Zia didn't get release from his jail sentence. But her jail sentence has been suspended several times on humanitarian grounds, he said, adding that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina showed the generosity.
He said BNP also knew it very well that there is no scope for Khaleda Zia to do politics and that is why they made the party's senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman as its acting chairman.
As Khaleda Zia is not valid to do politics, she has been dropped, he said.
Castigating BNP, the AL general secretary said BNP has given birth to terrorism in the country. When they were in power, they carried out terrorist acts, he said.
BNP carried out attacks on the then Opposition Leader Sheikh Hasina, wherever she went, he said.
AL Presidium Members Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya Bir Bikram, Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Dr Mustafa Jalal Mohiuddin, Joint General Secretaries- Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud and Mahbubul Alam Hanif, Organising Secretary Advocate Afzal Hossain, Office Secretary Barrister Biplab Barua, Information and Research Secretary Dr Selim Mahmud, Education Secretary Shamsunnahar Chapa, Relief and Social Welfare Secretary Aminul Islam Amin, Deputy Publicity Secretary Syed Abdul Awal Shamim, Deputy Office Secretary Sayem Khan, Dhaka City North AL President Sheikh Bazlur Rahman, Dhaka City South AL acting President Nurul Amin Ruhul, its General Secretary Humayun Kabir, AL Central Working Committee Members Parvin Jaman Kalpana and Shahabuddin Farazi, Jubo League Chairman Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash and General Secretary Mainul Hossain Khan Nikhil and leaders of other associate bodies attended the joint meeting.
