2024-08-20 22:08:27
Acting Chairman of BNP Tariq Rahman has given instructions to all the leaders, workers, supporters and well-wishers of BNP and its organs and affiliated organizations to ensure that all people of the country do not feel insecure, regardless of caste and religion.
Addressing the activists, he said that the interim government will announce the date of the national elections on time along the path of state reform. Win the people’s hearts to get the people’s verdict in that election. Gain people’s trust and love. Be with the people in happiness and sorrow. Keep the people together. Ensure it as a leader and activist of responsible and popular party BNP.
He said these things in a video message from London on Tuesday (August 20).
Tariq Rahman said that the change of power does not only mean the change of state power but also the qualitative change of the state and politics. In order to consolidate the spirit and goals of the mass uprising, it is necessary to ensure the political and economic empowerment of the people besides bringing the ousted anti-mass forces to face the law. The main tool of political empowerment of the people is to ensure the right of every citizen to exercise their vote.
He said, the desired qualitative change in the state and politics is not possible if the political and economic empowerment of the people is not ensured. To ensure the participation of the people in the desired state reforms, to make the democratic rule system sustainable, it is necessary to establish a government accountable to the people by the people’s vote.
Acting Chairman of BNP called on the forces of Bangladesh and said, “You will not fall into the trap of defeated evil forces.” If the mass uprising of the students is to be a final success, no one will engage in occupation, not assist in occupation. Don’t hurt the weak. Don’t take the law into your own hands. Revenge is not revenge, let us all show more responsibility from our position to ensure effective state reform to build a non-discrimination democratic state desired by the youth.
Tariq Rahman said that university students Shaheed Abu Saeed, Mahfuzur Rahman, college students Wasim Akram, madrasa students Abdullah Al Mamun, school students Rifat Hossain, a 60-year-old mother Maya Islam, 6-year-old child Riya Gop, teenage student Naima were impressed by the student uprising. Sultana, Comilla lawyer Abul Kalam, Chuadanga mason Ujjal Hussain, Noakhali shopkeeper Asif, Barguna drug company salesman Al Amin, thousands of people were martyred. Many people are still under treatment in different hospitals of the country.
Many people like Pabna driver Arafat Hossain, 22-year-old Mustaqeem who was shot in Mirpur, shop employee Atiqul, VIII class student Tamim had to have their hands or feet amputated. Hundreds of people lost their eyes, permanently crippled. The democracy-loving people once again enjoyed the taste of freedom in the freedom gained on August 5 at the cost of many lives, but the families who lost their children in the movement to overthrow Hasina or the families who suffered indescribable misery while treating the injured did not get the taste of freedom.
The Acting Chairman of BNP said that the Interim Government has already taken various initiatives for the purpose of providing necessary assistance by preparing the list of those who were injured in the popular uprising. This is definitely a positive step. However, if the family members of those who were injured in the uprising are given state honors, the families of the victims may get some emotional comfort, even for a while. I also believe that such an initiative will sharpen the spirit of the people’s uprising. He also mentioned that every year August 5 should be considered as a special day of national life in Sambar under the initiative of the state.
Tariq Rahman said that in 2018 there was a quota reform movement across the country. At that time the agitators were victims of state fraud. The genocidal Hasina government brutally suppressed the agitators. Even that time did not even give the opportunity to treat the injured. So, I think it is necessary to take into account how the state can help the quota reform activists who were killed in 2018 even if it belatedly. I believe the power of youth ignores the aspirations of the youth-never a state and government can achieve the desired goals.
Highlighting the role of expatriates in the movement to overthrow Sheikh Hasina, Tarek Rahman said that along with the students and people in the country, Bangladeshi expatriates have also made a special contribution in the movement to overthrow the genocidal Hasina government. When the freedom of expression was blocked in the country, a group of brave faces from the diaspora participated in the mass movement by highlighting the history of Hasina’s misrule in front of the people. While expressing solidarity with the movement to overthrow Hasina from abroad, some expatriate Bangladeshis had to endure prison oppression in exile. He urged the expatriates to continue their role in building a non-discrimination democratic Bangladesh as desired by the students and in the future as well as in the future by following the laws of the respective countries.