A Correspondent:
Rangpur: LGRD and Cooperatives Adviser Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan yesterday said the up-coming elections depend on the reform agenda.
“The one-point movement of the student-public movement was the fall of the fascist regime. The government is working to reform all government institutions to implement that one-point agenda and oppose that fascist system,” he said.
Asif Mahmud said this while talking to local journalists after distributing winter clothes among the needy in Kaharol upazila of Dinajpur district and exchanging views with upazila-level officials.
Adviser Asif Mahmud said, once the reform commissions submit their reports, the government will try to implement them according to that report.
“However, the impatience that is going on with the elections is certainly disrupting the govern-ment’s reform activities that are going on to some extent. That is creating obstacles to reforms in a way.”
He said, “We will appeal to political parties to cooperate with each reform commission by giving their opinions as the reform process will be completed based on their opinions. This will realize the hopes and aspirations of the people’s mass uprising.”
The adviser said, “I am not a member of the anti-discrimination student movement now, I am serving as an advisor to the current interim government. It is not possible for me to say what polit-ical decisions or what the anti-discrimination student movement is doing.”
He said the interim government has given a timeline, elections will be held between the end of 2025 and mid-2026. However, it completely depends on the reform process.
“The reform commissions have already been in place. Discussions will be held with the political parties on the reports of the reform commissions. And after implementing the reform work, we will go to the elections,” the adviser said.
Dinajpur Deputy Commissioner Md Rafiqul Islam and Superintendent of Police Md Nazmul Ha-san, Deputy Secretary to the Adviser Md Abul Hossain, Kaharol Upazila Nirbahi Officer Md Aminul Islam and anti-discrimination student leaders were present, among others.
