Convenor of the National Citizens Party (NCP) Nahid Islam has accused political parties of betraying both the July Uprising and people after the movement.
Addressing a roadside NCP rally in Pabna’s Shaheed Chattar on Monday night,
Nahid said, “The fascists and murderers must be brought to justice. We said fascist Hasina’s President (President Mohammed Shahabuddin) cannot be there as president. This generation removed her, but political parties were too afraid of acting more. They have deceived the movement and the people of the country.”
He stressed the need for reforming the media, police, bureaucracy, military and the constitution, saying a new Bangladesh would be built through reforms.
“Our student activists painted graffiti on school and college walls during the uprising — those graffiti already expressed the aspirations of post-August 5 Bangladesh. A new constitution has essentially been written with those,” he added.
Nahid said a proposal for a new constitution and judicial reforms would be presented on August 3, urging public participation.
NCP leaders Ariful Islam Adib, Nasiruddin Patwary, Hasnat Abdullah, Sarjis Alam, Tasnim Jara and Pabna student leader Barkatullah Fahad also addressed the rally.
BSS adds: National Citizens Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam has said that Abrar Fahad has shown the path of being pro-Bangladesh, anti-Indian aggression and anti-Delhi hegemony.
“The mass uprising was organized following that path and the NCP is doing politics along that path,” he said after visiting the grave of Abrar on the eighth-day of their month-long July March demanding justice, reforms and a new constitution.
Nahid said that the Indian-subservient terrorist organization Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) brutally tortured Abrar Fahad all night and martyred him as he spoke against the Indian aggression and for the people’s welfare.
“Abrar Fahad's crime was, he spoke for the people of the country and against Indian aggression,” he said.
He also said in 2019, we had formed the anti-Delhi hegemony movement across Bangladesh in protest against the killing of Abrar Fahad and that movement was one of the milestones in our fight against fascism.
Mentioning that the NCP wants to build pro-Bangladesh politics, Nahid said that they hold the spirit of those who have been subjected to disappearances, murders and torture in the last 16 years in the fight against fascism.
“We want to establish a pro-Bangladesh politics and an independent, sovereign and dignified Bangladesh with the spirit of the martyrs in the anti-fascist movements,” he said.
The NCC has started a nationwide 'Desh Garte July Padayatra (July March for building Bangladesh) demanding justice, reforms and a new constitution from July 1 and it will continue till July 30.
The NCP's convoy reached Kushtia today on the eighth day of the march and they started the day’s programmes here by visiting the grave of martyr Abrar Fahad.
On the night of October 6, 2019, leaders and activists of the Chhatra League beat and killed Abrar Fahad, a talented student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), over a Facebook status protesting an uneven agreement between Bangladesh and India and water aggression by New Delhi.
