Ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader said on Saturday that the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party was subservient to their foreign masters in a bid to go to state power.

Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, made the comment after paying tribute to Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Huq at his grave on Dhaka University campus in the capital on the occasion of his 62nd death anniversary.

The AL leader said that his party was never subservient to any foreign power.

Quader said that there was no democratic practice in the BNP and wanted to know how the party would establish democracy in the country.

He said that national leader Sher-e-Bangla was one of those who took politics to the common people, and the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman inspired the common people to achieve independence.

The AL leader said that the farmers of rural areas of Bangladesh would never forget Sher-e-Bangla as he protected them from the clutch of usury moneylenders by formulating the Tenancy Act and Debt Arbitration Board.