Don’t try to control BD with Modi’s help

Published August 16, 2024 · Updated August 16, 2024

Anti-Discrimination Students’ Movement leaders and activists patrol the city streets including the road stretch along Kalabagan in the capital on Thursday aiming at thwarting any attempt of fascist forces to stage counter-revolution using August 15 as a ploy.

DU Correspondant :
The Anti-Discrimination Students’ Movement leaders warned the Awami League to abstain from expecting to control Bangladesh with the help of India and criticised strongly the comment of Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who fled from the country in the student revolution, saying that his comment on Bangladesh’s election puts the country’s sovereignty in question.

Hasnat Abdullah, a key coordinator of the students platform, said this while addressing a sit-in protest at Shahbugh intersection to press their four-point demand against the ex-prime minister on Thursday.

He told Joy as saying that “Your boat has been broken long ago. So there is no point in finding a oar to operate the boat. Don’t expect to sail the boat to Bangladesh with Modi’s support.

Joy in an interview with The Indian Express on August 14 said, “I would hope India would ensure that elections are held within the constitutional
timeframe of 90 days, that the mob rule is stopped and that the Awami League is allowed to campaign and reorganise.”

“The country’s sovereignty has been questioned by requesting Modi without appealing to the people of Bangladesh about the elections.

We want to make it clear, you have no right to sit in America and make decisions about the country,” Hasnat commented.

Criticizing Joy’s remark, Hasnat said that the remarks have proved that the country ran the tender on Modi in recent years.

“Justice will be ensured first. And AL has to admit that they made a great mistake.

Then it is a matter of consideration, if the people accept you through public amnesty,” he stated.

From the protest at Shahbug, the students expressed that they will be vigilant on the field with different programmes to observe Resistance Week to defeat any threat to the mass uprising.

Regarding the election of the Awami League, Sarjis Alam, another coordinator, said, “The AL must be accounted for and punished for the torture and killing which have done in the past 16 years.

Then the people will decide whether they can stand for election.”