Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman on Sunday called for forging national unity among all to build discrimination-and corruption-free, youth-centric humane Bangladesh with the spirit of July revolution.
“Let us build a strong unity to build a discrimination-and corruption-free and humane Bangladesh,” he told a view-exchange meeting with family members of martyrs at Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre in the capital.
The party’s Dhaka City North unit organised the meeting with Ameer Mohammad Selim Uddin in the chair, reports BSS.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Standing Committee Member Salahuddin Ahmed, Jamaat Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar and leaders of different political parties spoke on the occasion.
Dr Shafiqur Rahman said his party doesn’t believe in politics of vengeance or revenge rather it believes in justice.
He demanded justice in all incidents of killing and repression from October 28, 2006 to August 5, 2024 under the existing laws.
The Jamaat Ameer also demanded inclusion of the history of the martyrs of this period in the textbooks to allow the new generation to know the true history of struggle against fascism.
“Those who struggled against fascism didn’t do so for personal interest rather for the country,” he said.
He further demanded providing a government job to one person from each family of martyrs.
Dr Shafiqur urged the government to ensure proper treatment for those who were injured in the movement.
Noting that Jamaat will always stay beside the family members of martyrs and injured of the July revolution, he also urged all political parties to stand by them.
He announced staying beside the family members to fight the legal battle to get justice in all incidents of killings.
“Jamaat-e-Islam doesn’t want revenge rather justice. We faced injustice during the fascist regime. But we don’t want the same fate for the fascists, rather we want proper justice in all incidents of repression and killing,” he said.
Noting that those who love the country don’t flee, he said fascist AL carried out killings, enforced disappearances and repression and looted public money and finally fled the country.
Dr Shafiqur said if anyone or any party carries out fascist activities like Awami League (AL) in future, they would also face worse consequences than AL.
BNP Standing Committee Member Salahuddin Ahmed said after the independence, AL had established one-party rule in the country destroying the country’s democracy.
AL’s history is the history of killing, vote robbery, enforced disappearance and looting of public money, he mentioned.
About the growing demand of banning AL, he said the people and the country’s law will decide whether the AL, which carried out mass killing, should have any right to do politics again or not.
Salahuddin Ahmed said an evil attempt is being carried out to create a constitutional or political crisis in the country.
“We don’t want any constitutional crisis,” he said, adding that it should be thought deeply whether there is any conspiracy or not.
The fallen fascist force can take advantage, if any constitutional crisis is created in the country, he said, urging all to remain alert to this end.
Family members of the martyrs of the July revolution and “Logi Boitha” mayhem launched by Awami League on October 28, 2006 also spoke on the occasion.
A documentary on repression and killings carried out by the fascist regime was screened in the programme.
A photo-exhibition on the brutality of AL was also inaugurated at the conference center on the occasion.
