Staff Reporter:
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islam has announced it would donate Tk1 lakh to each of the families in Feni that lost a child during the fight against the autocratic Sheikh Hasina-led government.
AKM Shamsuddin, chief of the anti-liberation party in Feni district, announced the grants at a press conference held over the current volatile situation prevailing across the country at Feni Press Club on Thursday. The party has also been paying for medical treatment of a number of injured students, Shamsuddin said.
He called for according the same state status and benefits Freedom Fighters receive on the martyred and injured students, boosting morale among police personnel suffering from insecurity, preserving the rights of Hindus and other minorities, preventing attacks on state assets, and thwarting attempts by the ousted Awami League and its allies to destabilise the country.
A large number of students sacrificed their lives and many more sustained injuries, for liberating the countrymen from the bloodthirsty clutches of the ousted Awami League administration, Shamsuddin said adding Jamaat would always remember these heroes.
Jamaat would place demands before the concerned state authorities for recognising the fallen students as the country’s greatest sons, in the same way the Freedom Fighters of 1971 are recognised, and also advocate for providing regular allowances to the killed students.
Now, it is the duty of all to preserve the beautiful atmosphere created through the sacrifices of young students. Law and order must be restored and lootings must stop, otherwise all the students’ achievements would turn futile, Shamsuddin observed.
Even though the authoritarian leaders have fled the country, their evil spirits keep lurking to hatch conspiracies by means of damaging state assets, conducting organised criminal activities and fanning rumours of attacks on minorities.
The general people must remain alert to prevent such misadventures, Shamsuddin said.
Furthermore, everyone must collaborate for ending security fears among police personnel, preserving communal harmony, protecting state assets and protecting religious sites of minorities including Hindus, he said.
Feni unit of Jamaat-e-Islami has formed patrol teams at all the upazilas in the district for protecting temples of Hindus and preserving the overall law and order situation.
“Hindus are not minorities in this country. They are our (Muslims’) brothers. We all will live together,” Shamsuddin noted adding a vested quarters is spreading rumours of attacks on Hindu temples
