Blaming the government for creating an anarchic situation through the most brutal killings in the country's history, Ganatantra Mancha has called on the prime minister to submit her resignation to President Mohammed Shahabuddin.
At a press conference, the opposition alliance also placed a six-point demand, including an impartial investigation of the entire incident, including the killing of the students, under the supervision of the United Nations.
Bangladesh-er Biplobi Workers Party General Secretary Saiful Haque made the demand at a press conference at Rashtra Sanskar Andolan’s Central office in the city's Mehrababa Plaza.
“We demand the government to quit immediately by taking full responsibility for driving the country toward anarchy through its continued state-sponsored terrorism,” Saiful said.
He said the prime minister has the option to tender her resignation to the president, which would facilitate the resignation of the entire government. “We are making this demand from this press conference,” he added.
Saiful said the government and the ruling party are entirely responsible for the killing of the students and people and for the emerging situation, as they have failed to pursue a peaceful solution in the face of a legitimate movement.
“The government has perpetrated the most brutal killings in the country's history in connection with the mass upsurge following the student movement. We urge the government to resign and submit their resignation to the president, taking responsibility for the huge loss of life and property,” the Biplobi Workers Party leader said.
He said the government will not be able to resolve the ongoing crisis centring the student movement by resorting to killing, arrests, torture, and spreading lies.
“The government must choose the path of a political solution to overcome this crisis. Otherwise, the people of the country will have no option but to oust the government to protect themselves and the country,” Saiful said.
He also called upon the government to implement the six-point demand of Ganatantra Mancha, an alliance of several opposition parties.
Their other demands include the prompt lifting of the curfew and withdrawing the armed forces and special forces to their barracks including the BGB, fully restoring internet services, ending government interference in the mass media, bringing to justice those who fired on protesting students, as well as those who planned, instructed, and executed the murders, withdrawing the false cases against arrested opposition leaders and students and releasing them, freeing the coordinators of the student movement who were taken by the DB police, reopening all educational institutions, halting block raids across Dhaka, and addressing the demands of the students.
Saiful urged all democratic and patriotic political parties, along with social and professional organisations to advance a peaceful mass movement demanding the resignation of the current regime while avoiding the instigation and malicious sabotage efforts by the government and the ruling party.
Ganatantra Mancha to hold rally in capital Wednesday
Ganatantra Mancha announced on Monday that they will hold a protest rally at the Purana Paltan intersection in the capital on Wednesday to press home their various demands, including the resignation of the Awami League government.
Saiful Haque, general secretary of Bangladesh-er Biplobi Workers Party, made the announcement at the same press conference.
He also urged all democratic and patriotic political parties, as well as social and professional organisations, to join in a peaceful movement demanding the resignation of the current regime, eschewing the instigation and the evil efforts for sabotage by the government and the ruling party.
Saiful said Ganatantra Mancha will come up with gradual programmes across the country to realise their demands.
He said they hoped that other political parties that have been carrying out a simultaneous movement will also announce similar gradual programmes in a coordinated manner.
"We'll hold a rally on July 31 at 11am at the Purana Paltan intersection to protest the violent incidents centering the mass uprisings of students and citizens and to demand justice for the brutal killings, the resignation of the government, and other related demands," Saiful said.
He alleged that the government has committed the most brutal killings in the country's history in connection with the mass upsurge following the student movement.
Saiful alleged that the government has already arrested 12,500 opposition leaders, workers, and students.
He condemned the brutality of the government, including the arrest and torture of senior opposition leaders, including two BNP standing committee members, the brutal torture of the President of Gono Odhikar Parishad Nurul Haque Nur, and the reported torture of the five coordinators of the quota reform movement in police custody.
