Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said if BNP wants to create anarchy on the streets in the name of movement, it would be handled with an iron hand.
"Chhatra Dal has been sent to the field threatening to kill Bangabandhu's daughter Sheikh Hasina... everything has an end. Mirza Fakhrul, do not play with fire. If you play with fire, its consequences will not be good," he said at a meeting of Awami League.
The joint meeting was held with Awami League central leaders and the leaders of Dhaka north and south units of the party and its affiliated bodies at its central office on Bangabandhu Avenue.
Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, called upon all to get prepared to resist terrorist acts in the name of a movement.
"We will reply to the arson terrorism carried out in the name of a movement on the streets. Awami League remains on the streets to resist all kinds of terrorist activities," he asserted.
He said the Padma Bridge inauguration will be celebrated up to the union parishad level on June 25.
"BNP is trying to create instability on the streets through Chhatra Dal. The city streets have not been leased out to anyone. Awami League leaders and workers will give a suitable reply," Quader said.
Mentioning that the BNP leaders will be invited to the Padma Bridge inauguration, he said since the date of Padma Bridge opening was announced, BNP leaders are feeling bad.
"However, they (BNP leaders) will be invited to the Padma Bridge opening ceremony," he added.
Quader said the Padma Bridge is the symbol of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's courage as she was as firm as the Himalayas with the Padma Bridge overcoming constant falsehoods around it.
" BNP is still making falsehoods about it," he added.
About the recent clashes between Chhatra Dal and Chhatra League on the Dhaka University campus, the Awami League general secretary said BNP was hatching plots to destabilize the campus using Chhatra Dal but everything is over now.
Noting that the next general election will be held under the Election Commission and that the government will cooperate with the Election Commission in holding it, he reiterated that although BNP withdraws from the elections, the polls will be held in time.
Awami League presidium members Colonel (rtd) Faruk Khan, Dr Abdur Razzaque and Jahangir Kabir Nanak, joint general secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif, Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud and AFM Bahauddin Nasim, Organizing Secretary Ahmad Hossain, Afzal Hossain and Mirza Azam, Liberation War Affairs Secretary Mrinal Kanti Das, Office Secretary Biplob Barua, Relief And Social Welfare Secretary Sujit Roy Nandi, and Science and Technology Affairs Secretary Abdur Sabur were, among others, present at the meeting.
