BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that there is a conspiracy to make Bangladesh a knee-jerk and weak state. The government is very deliberately depriving the people of the country of their rights, trying to push them away from their own identity. This plan must be stopped.
He said this in a webinar of the party on the occasion of the golden jubilee of independence on Thursday. The seminar and symposium committee organized this webinar titled 'Ziaur Rahman and the concept of Bangladeshi nationalism'. Educationist Professor Mahbub Ullah read the main article.
Mirza Fakhrul said, "The stronger our feelings about Bangladesh, the stronger we will be as a nation." So now our slogan is one - we don't want to be chained, we want to be free and we want to save people from this situation. We want to save the country by following the ideology of Ziaur Rahman. Let us move forward unitedly towards that goal.
The BNP secretary general said that the main aspiration of the people in the war of independence was a democratic state system, a free social system. But after 50 years of independence, we should be ashamed that even after so many years, we have not been able to build a proper political structure. Couldn't arrange for a peaceful change of power through an excellent system. Those responsible for this are those who have seized power by force today.
He said that Ziaur Rahman had led the country to independence by fighting on the battlefield and people had come down to the battlefield at his call. He showed a ray of hope to a nation plunged into despair at seventy-five and inspired it with action. Today he has built the foundation of Bangladesh.
Convener of the committee, a member of the BNP standing committee. Barrister Jamiruddin Sarkar, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Nazrul Islam Khan, Adviser to the Chairperson Abdus Salam, Professor Sukomal Barua, Joint Secretary General Syed Moazzair Hossain Rahman, Retired Judge Iqtedar Ahmed delivered the keynote address.
Besides, a meeting of the Sylhet Division Coordination Committee was held in Sylhet in the morning to celebrate the golden jubilee of independence. Vice Chairman of the party Professor AZM Zahid Hossain, City Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury, Organizing Secretary Sakhawat Hasan Jiban and other members of the committee were present there.
