Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said there are many similarities between the BNP and amoebas.
The minister was talking to journalists at the Secretariat on Thursday.
“An experiment can be done on how many parties are actually in the BNP-led alliance. A master's thesis can at least be done focusing on how many parties are in the BNP alliance,” he said while responding to a question regarding the BNP's one-point movement.
“They are a lot like amoebas. An amoeba sometimes divides itself and sometimes it grows. So there are a lot of similarities between the BNP and amoebas.”
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said his party is talking with 36 other opposition parties to take the one-point movement into the final stage.
He said they will also talk to the 12-party alliance, Ganatantra Mancha, and other alliances and parties to finalize their decision on the one-point anti-government movement.
Meanwhile, Dr Hasan condemned the recent Israeli raid on West Bank's Jenin refugee camp.
“We strongly condemn the way the Israeli military is carrying out air strikes on Palestinian civilians, resulting in loss of lives and displacement of people,” the minister said.
“Human rights organizations around the world make statements all the time, or in many cases they even sell statements, but in this case they are silent. I cannot find any statement from countries that sometimes sermonize other countries on human rights,” he said.
Hasan said the silence of those who talk about human rights in the world is “even more regrettable.”