A group of national minority people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts on Friday protested at the appointment of the CHT Development Board chairman Supradip Chakma as adviser to the newly formed interim government.
They held a demonstration under the banner of Aggrieved Indigenous Society in front of the State Guest House, Jamuna, the official residence of the interim government鈥檚 chief adviser Professor Mohammad Yunus, in the capital at about 3:30pm.
They said that they opposed the decision of appointing someone who had been a bureaucrat of the fascist Awami League government as the representative of the national minority people.
They demanded selecting their representative after discussion with the organisations and stakeholders of minority communities.
Rani Yan Yan, adviser to the Chakma Circle chief, said, 鈥榃e want the government to sit with us in order to to decide our representative after discussion with us. We will not accept it if the responsibility is given to someone who is loyal to the Awami League government.鈥�
She said that the person who was selected as the representative of the national minority people, is a very loyal type of person and could never do anything to protect the rights of them.
Yan threatened to continue their movement even if Supradip, former Bangladesh ambassador to Vietnam and Mexico, took oath for the interim government formed after Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 forced resignation amid student-led mass uprising on August 5.
Activist and researcher Reng Young Mro alleged that the selection of their representative was made without any discussion with the national minority groups.
鈥楽electing someone, who was a bureaucrat of the autocratic government, as our representative is devaluation of the mass uprising led by students against the discriminatory government,鈥� he said.
Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus took the oath as the chief adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh along with 13 other advisers on Thursday.
Supradip and two other advisers were not present at the oath ceremony as they were reportedly outside Dhaka.
