<div style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said that BNP is “preparing to foil the election through violence.”</span><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“We will not leave the country in the hands of Pakistan’s friends. The country, democracy, development, nothing is safe with them,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The road, transport and bridges minister made the remarks while addressing a views-exchange meeting at the party’s central office on Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka this morning.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He also urged party leaders and activists to fight for the country till the end. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">bnbd24/kh</div>