<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Road Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that Bangladesh Chhatra League’s (BCL) central rally has been moved to December 8 from December 6 as per Prime Minister and party president Sheikh Hasina’s instruction – to ensure that BNP can hold their Dhaka rally on December 10 without any difficulty.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Obaidul Quader said this while addressing Pirojpur Awami League’s tri-annual conference today, joining virtually from his Dhaka residence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The government will not obstruct BNP’s December 10 rally in Dhaka, but if they try to play with fire and sticks, they will get a befitting reply,” Quader said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The minister and AL leader said that a Canadian federal court declared BNP as a “terrorist organisation”, as their politics is about arson attacks in the name of protests.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“It is not so easy to turn a man – who fled to London after signing a bond with the condition that he will not be involved in politics – into a leader,” Quader said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Regarding BNP’s demand for a caretaker government, the AL general secretary questioned BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul: “Which country of the world has a caretaker government? It was your leader who said that no one is neutral except children and those who are mad.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said the caretaker government is now “obsolete”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Quader also said all the hype about a “human sea” went silent after BNP’s Cumilla rally and they will see what’s what in the capital. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>