Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said the ruling party wants peaceful elections in the country, but BNP wants to disrupt the polls.
"BNP is known as a terrorist party... we will see to whom sanctions and visa policy would be applied," he told a discussion organized at Dhaka University in the capital.
Dhaka University unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) organized the discussion on the occasion of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's 48th martyrdom anniversary and National Mourning Day.
BNP has destroyed democracy, siphoned off money and started the politics of vote stealing by killing democracy, the Awami League general secretary said, adding that BNP is fascist pretending as a party of democracy.
"They (BNP) have been recognized as terrorists at the international level and our fight is against them," he added.
About the "headache" of foreigners over Bangladesh's elections, Quader said: "They intimidate and threaten us, and now they are applying visa policy...BNP is not facing such threats. But BNP is obstructing the elections. So, the visa policy will be applicable to them (BNP), not to us".
He alleged that BNP is bringing its leaders and workers to Dhaka by paying Tk2,000-5,000 each in its movement demanding the resignation of the Awami League government.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir should go to Pakistan if he does not shun the demand of restoring the obsolete caretaker government, the Awami League general secretary said.
He instructed the Awami League leaders and workers to form committees in the units where there is no committee right now.
"The committees should be formed immediately. The organization should be maintained as a creative one by identifying those who are intruders in the BCL," he added.
Chaired by Dhaka University Chhatra League President Mazharul Kabir Shayon, the discussion was addressed, among others, by Chhatra League President Saddam Hussain.
