Unite, victory is inevitable: Dr Kamal [ Tritiyo Matra News ]

Unite, victory is inevitable: Dr Kamal

Local October 25, 2018

Dr Kamal Hossain, top leader of newly formed opposition alliance Jatiya Oikya Front and president of Gono Forum, on Wednesday urged people to be united to re-establish democracy in the country.
He said the JOF set seven-point demand for restoring what he called lost democracy and rights of people in the country.
‘We all have to be united and join the movement for restoring the people’s rights. Be united, our victory is inevitable,’ Kamal made the call while addressing the first public rally of the alliance at Registrar Ground in Sylhet on Tuesday afternoon.
As chief guest of the programme, he launched the Front’s campaign for a free, fair and neutral election under a non-party neutral government.
The demands of the alliance include resignation of the government, dissolution of parliament, formation of poll-time neutral government through discussion with all political parties, and release of all political prisoners including BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.
Stating that people were the owner of the independent country in accordance with the constitution, Kamal said in the rally that the founding president of the country Bangabandhu also had said that people were the owner of independent Bangladesh.
‘We have to restore our ownership through united movement. We do not want to remain as subjects of the dictator anymore,’ Kamal, also one of the main authors of the country’s constitution, claimed.
‘We want to become the owner of the country again. We want to bring the state under our control,’ he reiterated.
Criticising the incumbent government’s claim of development, Kamal said that development of a few was not the actual development of a country. The JOF wants development of 16 crore people of the country, he stated.
He urged people to remain with the JOF to re-establish people’s rights to a free, fair and neutral election.
Addressing the rally as main speaker, Bangladesh Nationalist Party general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir urged the government to resign before declaring schedule of the next general election.
He said the government would be ousted through peaceful movement to reinstate democracy in the country.
‘Resign before declaring the polls schedule. Hold the election under a neutral government. Use of EVM will not be allowed and digital stealing will not be allowed. Army has to be deployed in the election,’ demanded the BNP secretary general.
He said that a historic journey towards democracy started from Sylhet on Wednesday that would conclude through realising the seven points.
Jatiya Samajtantrantik Dal president ASM Abdur Rob, BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain and Barrister Moudud Ahmed, Gono Forum general secretary Mostafa Mahsin Mantu, Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna, JOF Sylhet rally’s coordinator Sultan Mohammad Mansur Ahmad, Gonoshasthya Kendra trustee Zafrullah Chowdhury, BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy and Abdul Mayeen Khan, Gono Forum executive president Subrata Chowdhury, JSD vice-president Tania Rob and general secretary Abdul Malek Ratan, Jatiya Oikya Prakriya member secretary ABM Mostafa Amin, among others, also addressed the programme.
Sylhet city mayor Ariful Haque presided over the rally that was addressed, among others, by BNP vice-chairman Enam Ahmad Chowdhury, Mohammad Shahjahan, Barkat Ullah Bulu, its chairperson’s adviser Aman Ullah Aman, Zaynul Abedin Faruk, Fazlul Haque Aspia, Advocate Fazlur Rahman, Khandaker Abdul Muktadir, Tahsina Rushdir Luna, joint-general secretary Khayrul Kabir Khokan, publicity secretary Shahid Uddin Anne and local BNP leaders including the Sylhet district unit general secretary Ali Ahmed.
Leaders and activists of BNP and other allies of the JOF started to reach the venue since 11:00am from different parts of the district.
The organisers alleged that police intercepted vehicles carrying the people, who were coming to attend the programme, at different places in the district to bar them from reaching the rally that began around 2:00pm.
During its launching, the JOF also announced 11-point objective including establishments of exploitation-free, just and welfare state and rule of law, abolition of individual centric ruling system ensuring check and balance of powers among president, prime minister and the government.
On October 13, the main opposition political party Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Jatiya Oikya Prakriya, led by Dr Kamal Hossain, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, led by ASM Abdur Rob, and Nagarik Oikya, led by Mahmudur Rahman Manna, launched the new alliance Jatiya Oikya Front.