2024-07-28 23:53:08
Although the quota reform movement was an apolitical and rights movement, it was no longer limited to students. At one point, it has taken the form of a movement of the student crowd. The general secretary of the Jatiya Party has announced 11 principles, including the support of the Jatiya Party in the ongoing student movement, calling the students killed in the movement as heroic liberation army. Mujibul Haque Chunnu MP.
He said that these decisions were taken in an emergency joint meeting chaired by party chairman and opposition leader Golam Mohammad Quader MP at the Jatiya Party chairman’s office auditorium in Banani on Sunday (July 28) afternoon.
At the end of the joint meeting, he presented the decision at 3:30 pm. The decisions of the meeting are-
1. This joint meeting of the Jatiya Party unanimously expressed its full support to the anti-discrimination quota movement for students’ rights. Along with this, Jatiya Party will continue to support the ongoing non-violent student movement.
2. In the meeting, condolence was expressed to the families of the students who died in the non-violent movement of the students.
3. The just demand of this anti-discrimination student movement strongly condemned the process of repression through the use of force.
4. The meeting condemned the submission of false statements without providing the actual cause of death in the case of martyrs including Abu Saeed, who was killed in the student movement.
5. The killed students will be termed as heroic liberation army and the list of real martyrs will be published by forming an impartial commission.
6. In the meeting, all government officials and instigators involved in the killing of students should be brought under the law and justice system should be ensured.
7. The meeting urged the leaders of the anti-discrimination student movement not to harass or torture them. It also called for the withdrawal of all the cases filed in the name of the students and the immediate release of all the students and leaders arrested in the anti-quota student movement.
8. This meeting of the Jatiya Party is demanding respectable compensation to the families of those killed in the student movement and proper treatment of the injured.
9. This meeting is calling for the immediate opening of all social media including the internet in the country.
10. In this meeting, the concern of attacks on various important government facilities was expressed. It is the responsibility of the government to provide security for KPI-included installations and other important installations. The government has failed to fulfill this responsibility. The government cannot avoid this responsibility.
11. All educational institutions of the country should be opened immediately. Along with this, the actual students have to arrange security through the hall administration and ensure the security of the campus. Journalists killed and injured in the violence should be given proper compensation.
Jatiya Party Secretary General Md. Mujibul Haque Chunnu MP. In response to a question, he said that the independence movement of Bangladesh was against the exploitation and deprivation of West Pakistanis. After independence, the people of the country thought that there would be a country free from exploitation and discrimination. But in reality it did not happen. Although the quota reform movement was an apolitical and rights movement, it was no longer a movement confined to students. At some point it took the form of a student movement.
He also said that there was a suppressed anger among the people due to long exploitation, deprivation, lack of democracy. Since the crackdown on the non-violent movement of the students, people have come down with them to protect them. Brutal torture of students, killing of many students. A lot more than that have been injured. We have never seen such a spontaneous movement in the past. The nation has never witnessed such barbaric and oppressive killings. Due to which, from school students to all levels of people can be seen participating in this movement.
Stating that we have full support for the demands of the anti-discrimination student movement, the general secretary of the party said that we were not in the field with the protesting students because they did not want the political parties to be directly on their side. But in the closing speech of the last parliament session, Jatiya Party chairman and opposition leader Golam Mohammad Quader MP spoke for 10 minutes in favor of the protesting students demanding quota reform.
In response to another question, Mujibul Haque Chunnu said that various government buildings were destroyed in the name of violence. For this, the concerned ministers should accept the responsibility and leave. There was no attack on the house of any minister or MP. Proper security arrangements were made there. But they had no initiative to protect the government buildings. In the name of arresting the agitators, the law and order forces are carrying out arrest business.
Jatiya Party Senior Co-Chairman Barrister Anisul Islam Mahmud MP, Co-Chairman Bir Muktijodha ABM Ruhul Amin Howladar MP, Presidium Member SM Faisal Chishti, Mir Abdus Sabur Asud, Haji Saifuddin Ahmed Milan, Barrister Shamim Haider Patwari, also spoke in the joint meeting. Lt. General (Retd.) Masud Uddin Chowdhury MP, Advocate Md. Rezaul Islam Bhuiyan, Alamgir Sikder Lawton, Major (Retd.) Rana Md. Sohel, Md. Zahirul Islam Zahir, Mostafa Al Mahmud, Zahirul Alam Rubel, AKM Mostafizur Rahman, Chairman’s Advisor Monirul Islam Milan, Md. Khalilur Rahman Khalil, Major (Retd.) Sikdar Anisur Rahman, Major (Retd.) Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Joint Secretary General. Samchul Haque, Syed Manjur Hossain Manju, organizing secretary. Humayun Khan, Kazi Abul Khair, Syed Iftekar Ahsan Hasan, General Secretary of Jatiya Jubo Sanghati Ahad U Chowdhury Shaheen, Education Affairs Secretary Mizanur Rahman Miru, Joint Organizing Secretary Md. Helal Uddin, President of National Student Society Al Mamun.
Co-Chairman Advocate Salma Islam MP, Presidium member Hafiz Uddin Ahmed MP, Golam Kibria Tipu MP, Syed Md. Abdul Mannan, Nasreen Jahan Ratna, Syed Didar Bakht, Nazma Akhtar, Md. Atiqur Rahman Atiq, Sherifa Quader.