Left leaders for united movement to curb militancy

Left leaders at a roundtable in the city on Friday called on all the left, democratic and progressive political parties to get united and wage movements against militants responsible for a series of targeted homicides across the country.
Oikya NAP organised the discussion at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on ‘National initiative to curb militants and terrorists in the country’ where president of the party, Pankaj Bhattacharya read out the keynote paper.
Some vested quarters are responsible for a series of planned killings committed in the past few weeks to push the nation into instability, Pankaj observed.
The incumbent government has failed to take effective measures against the militants, he said.
He called on all the left, democratic and progressive political parties to wage combined movements against the evil forces who want Bangladesh to fail.
Pankaj called on the government to take drastic actions against the killers and award them exemplary punishments.
The president of the Communist Party of Bangladesh, Mujahidul Islam Selim, said that the country was facing a serious political crisis and that some quarters were trying to intensify it.
Referring to the recent successive homicides, he feared that the country might face more uncertainties in the future.
He also called on all the pro-liberation political forces to get united and resist conspiracies against the nation.
‘We expect that only pro-liberation political forces would rule the country on the basis of four fundamentals of the constitution and we should not be accepting Islam as the state religion,’ Selim said.
The ruling Awami League slipped off the ideals of the country’s liberation and was now upholding the state religion (Islam), the CPB leader said.
He called on the government to impose ban on the politics of Jamaat-Shibir and other militant outfits.
Dilip Barua, general secretary of Samyabadi Dal, a partner of the Awami League-led alliance and also a former minister, said both the administration and the law enforcers failed to curb militancy.
Fazle Hossain Badsha, general secretary of the Workers Party of Bangladesh, another partner of the Awami League-led alliance, also called on pro-liberation political forces to forge unity and wage movements against militancy.
Mofizul Islam Khan Kamal, central leader of Gana Forum, said the AL-alliance government has miserably failed to ensure good governance.
Ganatantri Party central leader Nurur Rahman Selim, Gana-azadi League leader SK Shikder and Oikya NAP general secretary Asadullah Tareque also spoke.

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