A platform named Ganatantrik Odhikar Committee was formed with Professor emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury as its convener to stand against any measures against the deprivation of democratic rights and freedom of expression in Bangladesh.
The committee was formed with more than one hundred people, including teachers, students, writers, journalists, artists, lawyers, and doctors from various professions of society.
The committee was announced from a meeting at Teacher-Student Centre Cafeteria of Dhaka University on Thursday, said a press release.
The committee鈥檚 joint conveners are professor Harun-or-Rashid, Abdullah Kafi Ratan, professor Tanzimuddin Khan, Seema Dutt, Maha Mirza, and Kallol Mustafa.
The release said that the platform would work on all kinds of democratic demands, including ensuring democratic rights and freedom of expression of all citizens of the hills and plains.
It will also work to cancel repressive and anti-people laws, to ensure independence of the judiciary, to protect the rights of workers and farmers, and to ensure a democratic campus free from occupation, the release added.
Fascism is re-established after every mass uprising, and the achievement that comes at the cost of lives is failed, the committee said, adding that this mass uprising cannot be allowed to be failed.
It also said that this committee was formed as a united platform of all the forces participating in the democratic movement.
The members of the committee include professor Anu Muhammad, Professor Salimullah Khan, Professor Akmal Hossain, Professor Mamun Al Rashid, Professor Mohammad Azam, Moshahida Sultana Ritu, Snigdha Rezwana, Journalist Abu Sayeed Khan, Ashraf Qaiser, Bidhan Rebeiro, Anis Raihan, Chowdhury Mufad Ahmed, ASM Kamal Uddin, Afzalur Basar, Mazharul Islam Babla, Lawyer Jyotirmoy Barua, Writer and Artist Mustafa Zaman, Artist Arup Rahi, Mofizur Rahman Laltu, Bithi Ghosh, Sushmita Roy Supti, Nazmun Nuzhat Maisha, Omar Tarek Chowdhury, Jamshed Anwar Tapan, Film Producers 聽Amitabh Reza Chowdhury, Kamar Ahmad Simon, professor Kazi Rafiqul Islam, Baki Billah, Joydeep Bhattacharya, Nasimul Khabir Deik, Taslima Akhtar Lima, Jolly Talukder, Amena Khatun, Sunayan Chakma, Harun-or-Rashid Bhuiyan, Manas Nandi, Shamim Imam, Satyajit Biswas, Iqbal Kabir, Afzal Hossain, Rashed Shahriar, lawyers Manzoor Al Mateen, Ragib Naeem, Salman Siddiqui, Dilip Roy, Saikat Arif, Sayedul Haque Nishan, Ankan Chakma, and Taufika Priya.
