'See if govt deviates from holding trial'
Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee Executive President Shahriar Kabir yesterday called upon voters of next general election to oversee the government's commitment for building a secular Bangladesh and carrying out the war crimes trial.
“People supported the grand alliance in 2009 election as they were united over the ideology of 1971.
“If the government now slips from the ideologies, people, specially the new generation, will answer through the next election,” said Kabir, also a writer and journalist.
He was addressing a conference organised by the committee's Rajshahi University (RU) convening unit at RU Central Shaheed Minar premises.
A five-member board of the committee's RU council was formed at the conference making Saddam Hossain Tipu president and Abdul Gaffar Sumon the general secretary.
Kabir said if the government tries to restore the constitution of 1972 keeping some changes brought since 1975 by the allies of Pakistan, there would be no doubt that ghosts of Jamaat-Shibir are living within the government.
He said politics in the name of religion is dangerous and has been proven during the rule of BNP-Jamaat between 2001 and 2006 through the rise of fanaticism.
He warned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of danger saying she should be aware that Bangabandhu's liberal views are one of the reasons that led to his assassination.
Chaired by the committee's RU convening unit Convener Shiddartha Sankar Saha, the conference was addressed among others by the committee's General Secretary Kazi Mukul, Central Vice President Dr Sayed Shafikul Islam and Rajshahi Muktijuddha Pathagar President Shafikur Rahman Badsha.
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