, Sept. 20 -- BNP senior leader Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Saturday said no reform will succeed, nor will it help the country develop, unless corruption is eliminated from society.

"We must rid our society of corruption. If we fail to do this, we will never be able to make Bangladesh a developed country. No matter how many reforms we bring, as long as we don't remove corruption from society, nothing will work," he said.

Dr Moyeen, a BNP Standing Committee member, made the remarks while speaking at a discussion organised by the Nationalist Bank-Insurance Professionals Parishad at the Jatiya Press Club.

He praised the late President and BNP founder Ziaur Rahman as a man of integrity, honesty, and ideals.

Dr Moyeen recalled that Zia once sa...