<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government has been working constantly to build a toxic-free state structure.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The government is not making the state-structure toxic rather it is working incessantly to build a toxic-free country," he said in a statement protesting against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's recent "misleading comments".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Quader said BNP, which was born at the hands of military dictator Ziaur Rahman who seized the state power through the barrel of gun, had poisoned the state-structure by staying in power for a long time. The state and society are still bearing the brunt, he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The minister said BNP, in the name of politics, established and nurtured the anti-liberation forces and the ideology against the spirit of Liberation War everywhere.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the course of time, BNP has become a poisonous tree, he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said the government led by Bangabandhu's daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is determined to build a non-communal, progressive, developed, prosperous and Smart Bangladesh after rooting out the poisonous tree.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The AL general secretary said Mirza Fakhrul ascertained his stance against the independence by raising questions over the number of freedom fighters in AL.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said the secretary general of BNP, formed with some brokers, killers and anti-liberation forces, is making derogatory comments against Awami League which led the country's great Liberation War.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">These comments reveal their stance against the independence, he mentioned. BSS</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>