Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government has been working constantly to build a toxic-free state structure.
"The government is not making the state-structure toxic rather it is working incessantly to build a toxic-free country," he said in a statement protesting against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's recent misleading comments.
Quader said the BNP, which was born at the hands of military dictator Ziaur Rahman who seized the state power through the barrel of a gun, had poisoned the state-structure by staying in power for a long time. The state and society are still bearing the brunt, he added.
The minister said the BNP, in the name of politics, established and nurtured the anti-liberation forces and the ideology against the spirit of the Liberation War everywhere.
In the course of time, BNP has become a poisonous tree, he said.
He said the government led by Bangabandhu's daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is determined to build a non-communal, progressive, developed, prosperous and Smart Bangladesh after rooting out the poisonous tree.
The Awami League general secretary said Mirza Fakhrul ascertained his stance against the independence by raising questions over the number of freedom fighters in Awami League.
He said the secretary general of BNP, formed with some brokers, killers and anti-liberation forces, is making derogatory comments against the Awami League which led the country's great Liberation War.
These coms reveal their stance against independence, he mentioned.