Jamaat holds human chain in Capital protesting gas crisis
Staff Reporter :
A human chain was held in Jurain under the initiative of Jamaat-e-Islami’s Kadamtali Thana unit, demanding a solution to the gas crisis in the capital. The programme, organised on Friday, was attended by several hundred local men and women.
Addressing the programme, Syed Zainul Abedin, a member of the executive council of Jamaat-e-Islami Dhaka South City, said that the gas crisis being witnessed across the country is an artificial one. Due to syndicates of unscrupulous businessmen, people are not getting LPG gas.
Because of Awami League collaborators inside and outside the government, the government is unable to take strict action against these dishonest businessmen.
He further said that after August 5 of ’24, Jamaat-e-Islami repeatedly warned the interim government and urged it to identify and bring under the law the Awami collaborators present inside and outside the government. But the government failed to do so. Today, who is responsible for the artificial gas crisis, deterioration of law and order, rising commodity prices, corruption, terrorism, and extortion?—by protecting Awami collaborators to sit on the seat of power, leaders of a political party are engaging in corruption, terrorism, and extortion.
They are killing their own leaders and activists for extortion money. The Awami League beat people to death like snakes using sticks and oars. Another party brutally killed a businessman by smashing him with stones for extortion. He said that in building a new Bangladesh, the young generation will boycott terrorist, extortionist, and corrupt leadership.
Regarding the referendum, Syed Zainul Abedin said that to permanently block the path of fascism, people must vote ‘Yes’ in the referendum. If ‘Yes’ wins, no individual will be able to remain prime minister for more than ten years. As a result, the emergence of autocracy and fascism will be prevented. Whenever a person remains in power for a long time, that person inevitably becomes authoritarian.
He said that to establish justice in Bangladesh by ensuring trials for the mass killings of ’24 and every murder, killing, and enforced disappearance committed during the Awami League’s rule, and to stop government interference in the judiciary, the ‘Yes’ option must win in the referendum. He called on the people of the country to vote ‘Yes’ in the referendum.
