Just one bad deed can overshadow dev: Quader

Awami League (AL) general secretary and minister for Road Communications and Bridges Obaidul Quader yesterday in Chattogram said the party does not need “polluted blood” and it will have to removed from the party.

He was addressing a meeting organised by the north and south city units of AL, to commemorate the late Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury Babu, former presidium member of AL, at a community centre in the port city.

 One of the organisers of Liberation War, Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury Babu, also the father of Land Affairs Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed,  died on November 4, 2012.

While addressing the event as chief guest, Quader said the party would not take the responsibility of the misdeeds of a small number of “bad people” in it.

“A lot of development work has been underway in Chattogram as well as throughout the country, but the achievement of development can be overshadowed by a single bad deed,” he said. 

“Change in attitude and work is necessary to keep pace with the modern time but we do not want change that will derail AL from its ideology,” said Quader.

“AL is a mass people-oriented party, a trait that will have to remain unchanged,” he said.

Remembering late AL leader Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury Babu, Quader said Babu never used politics for making money. 

Babu loved people and so he could be a leader, he said. 

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud said Babu never betrayed the politics of AL, Bangabandhu and Sheikh Hasina.

Deputy minister for Education Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel; Chattogram City Corporation Mayor AJM Nasir Uddin, and Land Affairs Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed also spoke, among others, with AL Chattogram south district unit president Moslem Uddin Ahmed in the chair.