Prothom Alo complements BNP in undermining Bangladesh: Quader

Saying that BNP and Prothom Alo newspaper complement each other, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said that the Bengali language daily is trying to belittle Bangladesh before the world to humiliate the government.

“Domestic and foreign conspirators want to create another seventy-five. Their aim is to rig the next election and establish an unelected government. Prothom Alo’s news report published the on Independence Day is part of the conspiracy,”

The conspirators will be brought under the law, as no one is above it, he said.

He was speaking at a joint meeting of Awami League at its central office at Bangabandhu Avenue on Saturday.

The joint meeting was attended by the ruling party’s presidium and central executive committee members, president-general secretaries of Dhaka metropolitan north-south Awami League and allied organisations.

Quader, who is also the road transport and bridges minister, said what the Prothom Alo has done is not only an aspersion on the country’s independence, but a criminal offence.

He said the newspaper has committed yellow journalism in a bid to create anarchy in the country. The editor of the newspaper cannot avoid the responsibility of reporting the news with wrong information.

He stated that the newspaper has showed extreme arrogance by not apologising for the wrong news.