Jamaat-e-Islami amir Shafiqur Rahman on Sunday called for forging national unity among all to build discrimination-and corruption-free, youth-centric humane Bangladesh with the spirit of July revolution.
鈥楲et us build a strong unity to build a discrimination-and corruption-free and humane Bangladesh,鈥� he told a view-exchange meeting with family members of martyrs at Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre in Dhaka.
Shafiqur Rahman said that his party didn鈥檛 believe in politics of revenge rather it believed in justice, demanding justice in all incidents of killing and repression since October 28, 2006 to August 5, 2024 under the existing laws.
The Jamaat amir also demanded inclusion of the history of the martyrs of that period in the textbooks to allow the new generation to know the truth of struggle against fascism. 鈥楾hose who struggled against fascism didn鈥檛 do so for personal interest rather for the country.鈥�
He further demanded providing a government job to one person from each family of martyrs. He urged the government to ensure proper treatment for those who were injured in the movement.
Noting that Jamaat would always stay beside the family members of martyrs and injured of the July revolution, he also urged all political parties to stand by them.
He announced staying beside the family members to fight the legal battle to get justice in all incidents of killings.
鈥楯amaat-e-Islam doesn鈥檛 want revenge rather justice. We faced injustice during the fascist regime. But we don鈥檛 want same fate for the fascists rather we want proper justice in all incidents of repression and killing,鈥� he said.
Noting that those who loved country didn鈥檛 flee, he said that fascist Awami League carried out killings, enforced disappearances and repression and looted public money and finally fled the country.
Shafiqur said that if anyone or any party carried out fascist activities like Awami League in future, they would also face worse consequences than AL.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed said that after the independence, Awami League had established one-party rule in the country destroying the country鈥檚 democracy.
鈥楢L鈥檚 history is the history of killing, vote robbery, enforced disappearance and looting of public money,鈥� he mentioned.
About the growing demand of banning AL, he said that the people and the country鈥檚 law would decide whether the AL, which carried out mass killing, should have any right to do politics again or not.
He said that an evil attempt was being carried out to create a constitutional or political crisis in the country.
Family members of the martyrs of the July revolution and 鈥楲ogi Boitha鈥� mayhem, launched by Awami League on October 28, 2006, also spoke on the occasion.
A documentary on repression and killings carried out by the fascist regime was screened in the programme. A photo-exhibition on the brutality of AL was also inaugurated at the conference centre on the occasion.
The party鈥檚 Dhaka City North unit organised the meeting with its amir Mohammad Selim Uddin in chair. Jamaat secretary general Mia Golam Parwar and leaders of different political parties spoke on the occasion.
