Those excited at BJP’s landslide victory are fool: Ashraf

UNB, Dhaka :
Awami League General Secretary and LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam on Saturday termed ‘fool’ those who are too much excited at the landslide victory of BJP in the Indian Lok Sabha elections.
He also came down heavily on those who take part in TV talk-shows and write in newspapers, saying they lack in in-depth knowledge of reality.
He made the remarks while addressing a discussion organised marking the homecoming day of AL chief Sheikh Hasina. Awami League Dhaka city unit organised the discussion at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh
with its acting president MA Aziz in the chair. Syed Ashraf said several quarters are too much happy that the Congress faced a debacle in the Indian elections. “They’re happy to see that Narendra Modi will be the next Prime Minister of India and are dreaming that Awami League will be in trouble. Let me say something to them. Those who have little knowledge about democracy can’t say like this. These people don’t have any idea about foreign policy.”
He continued: “We are not the followers of anybody and nobody is our master. The relations of us with India will remain the same as our foreign policy is ‘friendship to all and malign to none’ and this policy was formulated by the Bangabandhu government.”
The ruling party leader said the country’s people liberated the land after a long struggle of nearly nine months and this country did not become independent at anybody’s mercy.
“We have relations with different countries. We want to change the people’s fate with cooperation from all,” he said.
He also said those who wanted to see the destruction of India is now welcoming Modi. “Narendra Modi knows it very well who believes in democracy.”
The LGRD Minister asked the party leaders and activists to take lessons from the defeat of the Congress. “They’ve suffered the defeat for their disconnection with the mass people. People gave their verdict in the elections. This is the lesson of the democracy. We’ve to keep close relations with people. Power is not for good. We have to go to people. A democratic party can’t be detached from people.”