Ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday came down heavily on opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party for its `street blockade’ programme saying ‘If BNP tries to block streets, their paths will also be blocked.’

BNP general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir from the party’s Friday rally in the city announced the ‘sit-in-programme’ on Saturday at the entry points of the capital city.

‘Don’t pose threat to us. Awami League’s roots are very deep in this soil,’ Quader said on Friday while addressing a ‘peace rally’ arranged by the party’s three affiliated youth organisations at the south gate of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque.

‘You announced that you will blockade the streets.  If you take any such programme your paths will also be blocked. Don’t threaten us,’ he added.

Obaidul Qader said that if anybody tries to create anarchy and vandalism would be dealt with iron hand accordingly.

Government is committed to maintain peace and stability in the country, he added.

Awami Juba League, Awami Swechchhasebak League and Bangladesh Chhatra League organised the rally in protest against BNP-Jamaat’s killings, conspiracy and anarchy in the name of realizing their one-point demand.

AL presidium members Begum Matia Chowdhury, Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, Shajahan Khan, Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya Bir Bikram, Qamrul Islam, Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Abdur Rahman, joint general secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif and AFM Bahauddin Nasim, organising secretary Mirza Azam, office secretary Biplab Barua, Swechchhasebak League president Gazi Mesbaul Hossain Shachchu and Chhatra League president Saddam Hussein addressed, among others, addressed the rally.

Juba League chairman Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash chaired the rally while its general secretary Mainul Hossain Khan Nikhil, Swechchhasebak League general secretary AKM Afjalur Rahman Babu and Chhatra League general secretary Sheikh Wali Asif Enan moderated it.