2024-09-13 09:43:08
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has expressed deep concern over the unrest in the garment industry. The party has called for finding those fueling the unrest.
In a statement sent to the media on Thursday (September 12), Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General and former MP Professor Mia Ghulam Parwar called for this.
He said, there is extreme unrest in the garment industry in the face of workers’ protests and vandalism in Gazipur and Dhaka’s Ashulia. Garment workers in these areas are protesting to demand payment and increase in their salaries. As a result, production is disrupted. Half a hundred factories have been declared closed indefinitely. A general holiday has been declared in more than half a hundred factories.
Mia Golam Parwar said that we are closely monitoring the ongoing unrest and worker dissatisfaction in the country’s garment industry. Garment industry is the largest and single sector of export earnings of the country. Instability in this sector will in no way bring welfare to the country’s economy and anyone concerned. All competing countries, including our neighboring countries, will take advantage of this opportunity to destroy our garment sector and run the gamut. As a result, it will be very easy for them to capture our market and they will benefit from it. Unfortunately, the Awami fascist government did not allow this large private industrial sector to escape from the clutches of the party like all other institutions of the country. As a result, for the last 16 years, BGMEA has been turned into a focal point for the rehabilitation and looting of Awami leaders without a vote. BGMEA was busy with the Awami Minister, MP and getting their own contractual privileges without giving importance to the development of business and trade of the country and the interests of the owner workers.
This top leader of Jamaat said that the post of the president of BGMEA was occupied by the secretary of Dhaka Metropolitan North Awami League SM Mannan Kochi. It is heard that he has no garment company of his own. Recently, he was directly involved in the indiscriminate killing and suppression of students in the revolutionary movement of students in Mirpur and Uttara. In this situation, I call on the law enforcement and intelligence agencies of the country to investigate whether Kochi and the current board appointed by him are working as a tool or fuel behind this movement or not.
Requesting all labor organizations working in the garment sector, he said, those miscreant groups or circles using the name of workers and labor organizations are trying to destabilize the country and the industrial sector, you should identify them and hand them over to the law enforcement agencies and cooperate with all possible organizations.
He said, we have to remember that if the country’s industry survives, we will survive and the wheels of the country’s economy will remain active. Therefore, let us all work together to protect the employment of the garment sector as the largest export sector of the country and take the country forward on the path of prosperity.