Staff Reporter:
Gono Odhikar Parishad President Nurul Haque Nur on Friday said like Awami League (AL), there will be no place for its associates too in the democratic Bangladesh.
“After the mass uprising, there is no place for fascism in independent Bangladesh…there is no place for Awami Bakhshali leaders in the country…there will be no room for their associates too,” he said.
Nur said this at the Rangpur divisional rally of Gono Odhikar Parishad arranged in memory of the martyrs and injured in the mass uprising at the Zila School Ground with an aim to build a discrimination-free Bangladesh.
With senior member of Gono Odhikar Parishad and its Acting Convenor for Rangpur Shere Khoda Asadullah in the chair, its General Secretary Mohammad Rashed Khan addressed the divisional rally as the key discussant while senior member Hanif Khan Sajib spoke as the keynote speaker.
Nur, also former Vice-President of the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union, said that some of the Awami League’s associates were showing audacity. “I will call upon the law enforcement agencies to arrest those Awami League’s associates too, who committed mass murder, to give relief to the people of Rangpur and the country,” he said.
If necessary, the leaders and activists of the Gono Odhikar Parishad will cooperate with the members of law enforcement agencies to this end.
Nur said, even in 53 years of independence, the fate of the people of Rangpur has not improved and no government has been able to solve the problems of the people of this region by implementing the Teesta Master Plan.
“There is no good medical institution and it is not possible to cover the whole region, where 47% of the people are poor, with only one university. But Rangpur is a potential region in agriculture in Bangladesh,” he said.
He said, “Industrial areas should be developed by making new industrial policies on agriculture. Ten products, including Haribhanga mangoes, sweet pumpkins, of Rangpur are being exported outside the country.”
Nur urged the interim government to prepare for the elections as well as reforming the state structure for carrying out reform and election activities simultaneously.
Mentioning his visit to Babanpur village under Pirganj upazila to offer munajat at the grave of Shaheed Abu Sayeed, he urged the people of the northern district not to forget the sacrifice of Abu Sayeed for the sake of establishing democracy and rule of law in the country.
Mohammad Rashed Khan said that the people of Rangpur are very peaceful and easy-going. But the role played by peace-loving Rangpur people in building a new state is rare, memorable and glorious in history.
“Shaheed Abu Sayeed is the visionary and craftsman of this new Bangladesh. Abu Sayeed showed us the dream of a new Bangladesh. The dream of those who gave their blood and life in the July upsurge was to reform a new Bangladesh state,” he said.
Senior Joint General Secretary of Gono Odhikar Parishad Hasan Al Mamun, its Assistant Office Secretary Ibrahim Khokan, Assistant Publicity and Publication Secretary Sohag Hossain Babu, Member Haji Kamal Hossain, President of Chhatra Odhikar Parishad Bin Yameen Mollah, Sramik Odhikar Parishad President Abdur Rahman and other central and local leaders spoke on the occasion.
