Clicking a link displays address in URL but doesn't open the page
<p>I am creating a theme on wordpress with Bootstrap CDN. I created a button as:</p>

<pre><code> &lt;div class="col-md-4"&gt;&lt;a href="&lt;?php echo get_permalink(); ?&gt;"
  class="btn btn-lg btn-block"&gt;Read Latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>It displays link as button and when I click it, url bar displays the link that should be opened, but page doesn't open. 
I know this is a very noob question but I'm stuck, any help is appreciated.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>Update:
The Resulting html link to the php I used is: <a href="http://localhost/baatega/bad-day-eh/" rel="nofollow">http://localhost/baatega/bad-day-eh/</a></p>