Opponents in front line of Mujib commemoration

The National Human Rights Commission chairman, Mizanur Rahman, on Saturday said that those who were against the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had now appeared in the front row at the discussion commemorating his death anniversary.
He made the remarks while speaking at the launching of a book –Bangabandhu-Equality-Imperialism – written by Abul Barkat at Dhaka University Senate Bhaban auditorium.
Without naming anyone, Mizanur said that many of those who did not surrender arms in the name of establishing ‘scientific socialism’ and wanted ‘to play drum made with the skin of Mujib’ immediately after the independence were now-a-days seen leading programmes in observance of the national mourning day.
Their present role did not reflect what they actually believed, he added.
He asked the leaders of the ruling parties for changing their plundering mindset.
Mujib’s opponents were making fortunes pretending that they were admirers of Mujib by observing national morning day, but the lifestyle of those who had made sacrifices and the common people had not been changed, he said.
Jurists and academics on Saturday observed that Bangladesh could have developed more if Sheikh Mujib had not been killed in 1975.
The life standard of the common people has not been changed as expected since the country’s independence in 1971, but it is true a section of people have made huge assets during the time as Sheikh Mujib’s dream and his instructions that government officials should serve the people have not been realised, they observed.
Former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque, the Law Commission chairman, said that Bangladesh could have ahead of Malaysia in terms of economic development if Sheikh Mujib had not been killed in 1975.
Senior jurist M Amir-Ul Islam, also one of the framers of the constitution, said that Sheikh Mujib had full confidence in the people but it was now missing and people were passing days with uncertainty.
Bangladesh Sector Commanders Forum chairman KM Shafiullah, former Dhaka University vice-chancellor AK Azad Chowdhury and former Dhaka University Central Student Union vice-president Mahfuza Khanam, among others, addressed at the programme.

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