CPB, SPB want national unity to curb militancy

The Communist Party of Bangladesh and Socialist Party of Bangladesh have urged for forging national unity to curb militant attacks, targeted killings and communal attacks in the country.
The two parties on Wednesday organised a joint press conference at CPB central office, where the CPB president Mujahidul Islam Selim said that the country was facing serious crisis after the brutal militant killings at a Gulshan restaurant in the city and at the Eid congregation at Sholakia in Kishoreganj.
About 26 people including 17 foreigners were killed in two militant attacks last week while targeted killings and extra judicial killings were continuing in the country, Selim said.
There was no alternative to forging national unity to face the militant forces and save the country, Selim added.
He called on the ruling Awami League and BNP to refrain from the blame games and called on the Awami League to sit with all the political parties incuding BNP, opposition Jatiya Party, left and democratic political parties, excepting Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, to fight against militant forces.
He also called on the ruling Awami League to take immediate steps to convene a dialogue among all political parties.
Syed Abu Zafar Ahmed, the CPB general secretary announced that the two parties would observe countrywide ‘Protection Month’ from July 15 to August 14, holding rallies and processions at grass root levels.
SPB general secretary Khalequzaman alleged that ‘imperialist American government’ was trying to intervene in the internal affairs of Bangladesh in the name of helping to curb militant forces.
The people of the country would not allow such foreign interferences in the country, Khalequzzaman said.
The CPB central leaders Ahsan Habib Lablu, Shamsuzzaman Selim, Ruhin Hossain Prince, Kafee Ratan and SPB central leaders Bazlur Rashid Firoz, Razequzzaman Ratan and others attended the press conference.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net