Politicians, academics and professionals on Sunday at a commemoration meeting in Dhaka said that left parties of the country should form a united front in order to take part in the next general election.
They said that the left parties were waging movements for establishing a discrimination-free society and the student-led mass uprising helped to establish the society through the ouster of the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina on August 5.
AFM Mahbubul Haque Smriti Sangsad organised the commemoration meeting at the National Press Club to mark the seventh anniversary of the death of former Socialist Party of Bangladesh faction leader AFM Mahbubul Haque.
At the meeting, Dhaka University emeritus Professor Serajul Islam Chaudhury said that left political parties of the country had been waging movements for a long time to establish a discrimination-free society.
He called on all the left political parties of the country to be united to form a united front in order to take part in the next general election.
Former president of Communist Party of Bangladesh Mujahidul Islam Selim said that the left parties took part in the recent students and people movement but the interim government was following the ruling system of the previous government.
That would not be fruitful for implementation of spirits of the student-led mass uprising, Selim said.
Former Jahangirnagar University professor and economist Anu Muhammad said that the spirits of the students and people movement were not reflected in the activities of the interim government headed by Professor Muhammad Yunus.
Chaired by convener of smariti sangsad journalist Abu Sayeed Khan, journalists Sohrab Hassan, Mahbub Kamal, politicians Harun-or-Rashid, Nasir Uddin Nasu and Mahin Uddin Chowdhury Liton, among others, spoke at the commemoration meeting.
