Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said that attacking an under-construction sculpture of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Kushtia is the same as “sedition.”
Quader, also the Awami League general secretary, said: “The attackers will have to pay the ultimate price. There will be no compromise.”
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The minister made the remarks while speaking to newsmen at the Bangladesh Secretariat in Dhaka on Monday morning.
Responding to a question of the reporters, he said: “Bangabandhu is bigger and beyond any political party. Thus, any non-political organization can file a case over the vandalization of his sculpture.”
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He informed that the construction work of another Bangabandhu sculpture in Dhaka’s Dholaipar area will soon be completed.
“The construction work will not stop,” he said.
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The minister said that the government is investigating whether there is any provocation of BNP in the anti-sculpture movement.
