Shawdesh Desk:

Road Transport and Bridges minister Obaidul Quader said on Thursday that a befitting reply will be given to BNP to protect people’s lives and property once they try to create violence in the name of movement.

He made the remark while addressing the 30th conference of Road and Transport Engineers’ Association in the city’s Tejgaon area as the chief guest.

Describing various achievements of the government made for the past 14 years, Quader said that smart road networks had to be built to turn Bangladesh into a smart country.

He said that the regulations of the ‘Road Transport Act’ were published in a gazette and it is being enforced.

Urging the government employees to stop unnecessary foreign trips, he said some officials go abroad on several excuses.

‘Some are involved in money laundering. We hate them,’ he added.

With the association’s president Syed Moinul Hasan in the chair, AL’s Science and Technology Affairs secretary engineer Abdus Sabur, Road and Transport department chief engineer Md Ishak and the association’s general secretary engineer Amit Kumar Chakrabartya among others spoke at the programme.