Let me be on the road: Quader

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidual Quader has asked organisers to spare him from attending discussions.

He has suggested them to publicise the government’s achievements instead.

“Please don’t call me to attend discussions. Let me be on the road,” he said at a programme commemorating Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s homecoming in Dhaka on Thursday.

“We have to come out of this culture of TV channels covering a programme only when a minister attends it,” Quader, the programme’s chief guest, added.

The Awami League presidium member said those who were associated with the party would naturally speak only for the party.

“Invite those, other than the party members, who uphold the same spirit,” the minister suggested.

Citing the government’s achievements, he dubbed Hasina as Bangladesh’s most successful politician in four decades.

“Sheikh Hasina’s maritime boundary victory has proven that ‘we can’,” Quader said.

Bangladesh settled its long-standing maritime boundary dispute with India and Myanmar under the Hasina government.

The prime minister terms the achievement her government’s “political and diplomatic” success.

Minister Quader advised party activists to highlight the government’s successes.

“There is no adequate publicity of the government’s achievements. Rather there is much propaganda against the government. Even record achievements are not highlighted,” he said.