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Mukta Rajnaitik Andolan holds a discussion titled Students-People Uprising, Non-party Politics and Serajul Alam Khan’s 14-Point Proposal at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Friday. | Press release photo

The implementation of the 14 points proposed by political thinker and philosopher Serajul Alam Khan is the only way to reform the state and the ruling system, speakers in a discussion in Dhaka said on Friday.

Mukta Rajnoitik Andolan organised the discussion on ‘student-mass uprising, non-partisan politics and Serajul Alam Khan’s 14-point’ at the Jatiya Press Club in the capital.


The political thinker’s 14 points include a central government of a federal system, bicameral parliament, formation of the government through national consensus, seven or nine states in Bangladesh, election-time government, the formation of an independent Election Commission, electing a non-partisan man president, and the formation of the parliamentary committees comprising of members from the Upper House and Lower House.

The points also include the formation of the National Security Council, Constitutional Court, National Economic Council, permanent Supreme Judicial Council and sub-regional economic alliance, and arrangement of micro-credit for poor people.

The speakers said that, in the present situation of the country, there was no alternative to implement these points to resolve the country’s problems and reform the state and ruling system.

Mukta Rajnoitik Andolan president Swarup Hasan Shahin said that, after the victory of the student-led movement that ousted the Awami League regime on August 5, they demanded to reform the state based on the 14 points proposed by Serajul Alam Khan.

A leader of the organization, Maidul Islam Sumon, read out the 14-point charter in the discussion.

Leaders of the organization, Asif Iqbal, Jebunnesa Jebu, Md Milton Hossain, Masum Sentu, Moshiur Rahman Mosi, Shawkat Ali Mintu, Kazi Umar Uddin, Fayezur Rahman Pitul and MA Kawsar, among others, also spoke.Â