Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Has once again questioned as to how Tarique Rahman can lead the party as he dares not to return home.
She said: "If a political leader has no courage to return home, how can he lead?"
She threw the question responding to Mirza Fakhrul's remarks that Khaleda Zia or Tarique Rahman will lead the party and be the Prime Minister if BNP goes to power.
The PM said that she herself came back to the country despite threats, and making hindrance to return home during the caretaker government. "I came back home forcefully taking it as a challenge," she added.
The Awami League president lambasted the people who said Tarique Zia is not allowed to return home, adding, "It is not right. None ousted him. He went abroad willingly and didn't return".
She added that Tarique Rahman went abroad during the caretaker government giving a written bond that he won't do politics anymore, and questioned the BNP leaders how they could forget it.
Sheikh Hasina further questioned how the election can be participatory one when the BNP is facing the crisis of right leadership.
"How the election can be participatory one when a party was created from a pocket of a person who illegally grabbed the power violating the country's constitution and now its leaders are convicted in corruption, murder and arm-haul charges and are fugitive?" she said.
Referring to 2018 national election, the premier said that the BNP leaders changed their candidate in a constituency several times in a day due to nomination business.
She went on saying that BNP leaders Enam Ahmed Chowdhury and Morshed Khan told her that Tarique Zia sought a huge amount of money from them for giving the party's nomination, but they refused.
The prime minister questioned how the party can attract the voters when they start election business and how the people can vote for a party when it is leaderless.
Referring to Tarique Rahman's remarks that the defeated force of 1975 is in power, she said the remarks proved that his parents Ziaur Rahman and Khaleda Zia were involved in the 1975 August carnage.
She said Zia rehabilitated the killers of Bangabandhu by providing prize postings in foreign missions by giving them general amnesty from the killing charges with enacting indemnity ordinance.
