Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said an identified quarter is obstructing the country's advancement as it has been hatching plots at home and abroad.
"The conspirators do not know that Sheikh Hasina, like Bangabandhu, does not know how to retreat as she never afraid of any conspiracy," she told a joint meeting with secretariat of Awami League, and leaders of the party's Dhaka North and South City units and affiliated organisations. The meeting was organised marking the 76th birthday of AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to be observed on September 28 next.
Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said the plotters do not know that if Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina loses; Bangladesh, its independence and the spirit of liberation war will lose.
If Sheikh Hasina does not remain in power, Bangladesh will no longer exist, he added.
Responding to a BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's statement that 'They were in good position during Pakistan era', Quader said these nationalists want to make Bangladesh Pakistan again but "We will not allow them to make our beloved motherland as Pakistan".
