Fakhrul asks youths to spread to villages, organise movement

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday urged the youths to spread to villages and towns, make the people aware of current misrule and wage movement for freeing democracy from the clutch of the government and bring Khaleda Zia out jail.

‘The youths need to spread in villages, towns and ports so that the people there can get message… You should organise the people and bring them to streets,’ Fakhrul said at a commemoration meeting marking the fourth death anniversary of the country’s former prime minister Kazi Zafar Ahmed, also founding chairman of Zafar faction of Jatiya Party.

He recalled Kazi Zafar as a legendary student leader in early 1960s and labour leader late 1960s and his advice to BNP to wage movement to get success in movement.

Jatiya Party organised the programme at National Press club in Dhaka. Zafar was a prime minister during army dictator HM Ershad’s regime.

Fakhrul, referring to recent criticism against BNP MP for reserved seat Rumeen Farhana on social media by activists of BNP and its allies for applying to government for a 10-katha plot in Dhaka, stressed the need of not creating any hesitation or division on the provocation of the government.

Referring to a book by social scientist Ali Riaz, Fakhrul termed the present government and 2018 national elections as ‘hybrid regime’ in which arrange elections taking all the state powers – the election commission, judiciary, law enforcement agencies and the administration – under their control to legalise their stay in power.

Jatiya Smamjtantrik Dal president ASM Abdur Rob said that Kazi Zafar, though born in a well-off family, took the path of serving people. He stressed the need for a national unity for freeing democracy. ‘If Zafar was alive, he could show the right path to restore democracy.’

Former Dhaka University professor Mahbub Ullah remembered Kazi Zafar’s contribution in the education movement in 1962 as the general secretary of East Pakistan Students’ Union, a labour leader at Tongi Industrial belt in the late 1960s and as the general secretary of Moulana Bhasani led National Awami Party after the country’s independence.

He, however, said that, Kazi Zafar was not so successful when he got involved with ‘power politics’.

Presided over by Jatiya Party chairman Mostafa Jamal Haider, the programme was also addressed by Ganasasthya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury, BNP vice-chairman Nitai Roy Chowdhury, JP secretary general Zafrullah Khan Chowdhury Lahri and Jatiya Ganatantrik Party general secretary Lutfor Rahman, among others.

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