<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>“BNP now asks the government to run away. They (BNP leaders) said the government will not find any escape route,” said Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader. “This is ridiculous.”</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Quader said on Sunday that the party’s leaders will never run away from the country in any hostile situation.</div><div><br></div><div>He was addressing at a huge public meeting organized by the Rajshahi district and metropolitan Awami League at historic Rajshahi Madrasa ground with Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as the chief guest.</div><div><br></div><div>“I will not run away, If necessary, I will go to Mr. Fakhrul's house.&nbsp; Will you not give us shelter? If not, he has a house Thakurgaon and we will go to that house,” he said amid laughter and cheers from the audience.</div><div><br></div><div>Quader said the BNP leaders have a history of fleeing from the country to save their skin from public wrath.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>“Before fleeing to London Tariq Rahman signed a bond that he will not do politics again,” the AL leader said adding that the convicted fugitive is now the leader of the opposition BNP.</div><div><br></div><div>Obaidul Quader said that he was born in this country and will die in this country.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>