City Desk :
The Center for Governance Studies (CGS) will host a dialogue titled “The Lone Wolves of Freedom: Their Dreams and Reality” in Dhaka on Saturday which will highlight the voices that have spoken against systematic repression in the past 15 years.
The dialogue will begin at the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) auditorium at 9:30am, reports UNB.
The dialogue will feature guests who have been vocal about the oppression of the past regime and faced challenges because of this, and what sort of changes and reforms they would like to see in Bangladesh’s future.
Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Adviser to the ministries of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and Water Resources, Badiul Alam Majumdar, Head of the Electoral System Reform Commission, Secretary of SHUJAN, ASM Nasiruddin Elan, Director, Odhikar, Munira Khan, President of FEMA, Kazi Faisal Bin Seraj, Country Representative of Bangladesh, The Asia Foundation, Barrister Andaleeve Rahman, Chairman, Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP), Zonayed Saki, Chief coordinator of Ganosamhati Andolan, Nurul Haque Nur, President, Gono Odhikar Parishad, Zillur Rahman, Executive Director, CGS, Dr. Zahed Ur Rahman, Teacher, Political Analyst, Masood Kamal, Senior Journalist, Didarul Islam Bhuiyan, Member, DSA Victims Network, Md Muktadir Rashid, Senior Journalist, Pritom Das, Member, Jatiya Nagorik Committee, Rezaul Karim Rony, Editor, Joban, Major Rezaul Karim (Retd), Former Military Officer, Michael Chakma, Organizer, United People’s Democratic Front, M U Mimi Marma Mimi, Special Correspondent, IPNEWS BD, Kalpana Akter, Executive Director, Bangladesh Centre for Workers Solidarity, Qadaruddin Shishir, Fact Check Editor, AFP, Bangladesh, Khadijatul Kubra, Student, Jagannath University, Umama Fatema, Coordinator, Students Against Discrimination, Mamun Abdullah, Liaison Coordinator, Students Against Discrimination will join the dialogue.
Earlier, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus called upon the nation’s citizens to initiate dialogues regarding the government’s actions and directions in his address.