Report in Prothom Alo, 12 Oct 2023
Awami League (AL) general secretary Obaidul Quader today said BNP leaders are making poisonous statements over environment-friendly Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant.
“Bangabandhu’s daughter, prime minister Sheikh Hasina, is inaugurating mega projects one after another that makes the BNP leaders irritated,” he said in a statement.
Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, said that is why BNP leaders are threatening to shut down the Rooppur nuclear power plant.
While in state power, he claimed, BNP did not carry out any development in the country, instead the party made Bangladesh champion in graft five times in a row.
So, the AL general secretary said, the BNP leaders are continuously delivering misleading and false statements over mega projects such as Padma bridge, metrorail, Dhaka elevated expressway, Bangabandhu tunnel constructed beneath Karnaphuli River and Rooppur nuclear power plant.
Today, the nuclear power is being used in the developed countries, including the USA and Europe, for human wellbeing, he said. ….
The road transport minister said the nuclear power is highly environment-friendly due to zero carbon emission. But, BNP does not like this kind of eco-friendly and cost-effective power generation, so they are making falsehood about the Rooppur nuclear power plant, he said.
He said as BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and its other leaders are narrow-minded, they are issuing threats to shut down such a mega project.
Quader said the country’s people better know that the tools of BNP’s politics are rumours, falsehood and propaganda.
The top leader of BNP had threatened that no one would run on the Padma bridge as it was built with patchwork, and it is possible for the secretary general of that party to make such an inconsistent and ignorant statement, he said….
