Rumi Akter Polly of DOT
Yesterday, Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said that in every year’s August month, the defeated evil forces of the 1971 liberation war start hatching conspiracy against the country, reports BSS.
He told to reporters, “Smell of conspiracy is found in the air in August and that is why we all should stay alert. When the month of August comes, the defeated evil forces start hatching conspiracy,” after placing a wreath on the Shahid Sheikh Kamal’s grave in city’s Banani area. Quader placed the wreath on the grave of Sheikh Kamal, elder son of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, marking his 70th birth anniversary.
On behalf of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, he directed the AL leaders and activists to stand by flood victims, help the government deal with the current dengue situation and participate voluntarily in the programmes chalked, marking the month of August.
The AL general secretary said that the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with most of his family members were killed on August 15, 1975.
He added that grenade attacks have been made to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in an anti-terrorism rally at Bangabandhu Avenue in the month of August.
Quader said a series of bomb blast was carried out in the country’s 63 districts in August and there was even a plot to conduct an attack on Dhanmondi-32.
About Sheikh Kamal, the AL leader said Kamal had courage and leadership capacity and he was capable of being a role model for youths.
Earlier, AL leaders and activists placed a wreath on the grave of Sheikh Kamal and offered doa for the eternal peace of his departed soul.