Politicians, researchers and activists on Friday at a discussion meeting in Dhaka said that the interim government, headed by professor Muhammad Yunus, should work to implement the spirit of the recent student-led mass uprising to remove discrimination in society.
The recently formed Democratic Rights Committee organised the programme at Central Shaheed Minar with its leader and former economics professor of Jaangirnagar University Anu Muhamad in chair.
Anu Muhammad said that the aspiration of the country鈥檚 people to the interim government was that they would implement the spirit of the recent movement and form a discrimination-free society.
For this the interim government should first restore the law and order situation and stop the ongoing anarchy, including sectarian attacks on religious and ethnic minorities, he said.
Writer and a private university professor, also a leader of the committee Salimullah Khan stressed that the main focus of the interim government should be to implement the democratic rights of people.
鈥楤ut we are still confused whether at all they would succeed in establishing the people鈥檚 rights or not,鈥� he said.
He criticised the interim government for their failure in stopping the recent extra judicial killings perpetrated at Dhaka and Jahangirnagar universities and for their inability to prevent the attacks on the national minorities.
Salimullah also called upon the interim government to give a roadmap outlining the probable length of its tenure to carry out reforms and a timeline to give a national election.
Revolutionary Communist League central leader and also a leader of the committee Harun Ur Rashid said that the interim government should take immediate steps to reduce price hikes of essential commodities and also to immediately restore peace in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Lawyer Joytirmay Barua said that people were against any kind of extra judicial killing and wanted to see peace in CHT.
Ethnic leader Michel Chakma said that people were eagerly waiting for the restoration of the rule of law and wanted establishment of democratic rights.
Academic Maha Mirza said that the advisers of the interim government would work for implementing the spirit of the student movement.
One of the committee leaders Samina Lutfa conducted the programme.
The rally was followed by a protest procession that ended in front of the Dhaka University Teacher-Student Centre.
