Politicians, academics and professionals at a commemorative meeting in Dhaka on Thursday said that people should follow the ideals of the late Atiqur Rahman Salu for getting justified water sharing of the common revers from India.
International Farakka Committee organised the commemoration meeting to mark the first anniversary of death of former International Farakka Committee chairman Atiqur Rahman Salu, who died in the United States on December 5, at the National Press Club.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Abdul Mayeen Khan said that Atiqur Rahman Salu was a true follower of Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani who formed the IFC for getting justified water sharing of the common revers between Bangladesh and India.
He proposed that we could hold another long march towards Indian border to press demand of justified water sharing from India like the long march held by Maulana Bhashani in 1974.
Chaired by chairman of the IFC Tipu Sultan, Jatiya Party faction chairman Mostafa Jamal Haider, the IFC Bangladesh chapter chairman Jasim Uddin Ahmed, politicians Saiful Huq, Zahir Uddin Swapan, Bangladesh coordinator of the IFC Mostafa Kamal Majumder, among others, spoke at the meeting.