Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has defended the spreading of a video showing BNP leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy having lunch at DB office saying it was not a problem.

“That is true, what is the problem? Whether someone conspired it is a different story. He ate well with Ruhi fish,” he said while talking to journalists at the conference room of the Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges at the secretariat on Monday.

“You better ask why he had eaten the food. Why is a political leader so hungry? What kind of politician is he? We did not even take food for three days in a row during our movements. Maybe he got hungry participating in the movement.”

Quader said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sent BNP leader Aman fruits as he was a bit sick and courtesy should be maintained in politics.

When asked about the political etiquette of releasing such video, Quader said, “Has it been done by political people? It was done by detectives. It was not done by Biplob Barua and Arafat.”
A video containing Gayeshwar having lunch at the DB office with its chief Harun-Or-Rashid went viral on Saturday.

The BNP leader was detained from Dholaikhal during a clash between police and BNP activists. Later, he was brought to the DB office.

Talking to reporters at his Nayapaltan office, Gayeshwar on Sunday said the video and pictures of his lunch at the DB office have been circulated with the intention to mislead people.

He said spreading videos and photos of the incident on social media is a low-taste joke and a very shameful and hateful act.