Grand rally at Paltan Maidan tomorrow

Members of different progressive political parties along with intellectuals, cultural activists, professionals and students will throng the historic Paltan maidan in the capital at 2 pm tomorrow aiming to launch a countrywide campaign against anti-liberation forces and for a ban communal politics in the country, reports BSS.

All necessary preparations have been completed to hold the grand national rally. Progressive people from the rally will take a fresh vow to root out communal politics from the country and hold trial of the collaborators of the Pakistani occupation forces in the new millennium, the rally organisers say.

"The main objective of holding the rally under the banner of "Ekatturer Ghatak-Dalal Nirmul Jatiya Samannaya Committee" is to free the country from the clutches of "Razakars" (Collaborators) in the next millennium," convenor of the committee Syed Hasan Imam told BSS yesterday.

"We are thinking of a collaborator free secular country to uphold the spirit of the country's war of liberation in the next millennium where the trial of the killers and collaborators of the 1971 will take place," Imam said.

He said a series of countrywide programmes would be announced against the collaborators from the grand rally expected to be one of the larger gatherings of progressive forces in recent years.

Meanwhile, a representative meeting of different political parties, cultural workers, and professionals was held at the BMA Bhaban on Wednesday with convenor of the Ghatak-Dalal Nirmul Jatiya Sammannaya Committee Syed Hasan Imam in the chair.

The meeting discussed various aspects to make the programme a success through bringing of the pro-liberation progressive forces to a single platform.

Besides, Sammilita Sangskritik Jote, an alliance of different cultural groups, yesterday brought out a procession on the city streets with a renewed pledge to build a secular Bangladesh in the next millennium.

The procession attended by educationists, journalists, cultural activists, students and eminent citizens of the country, began from the Dhaka University campus and ended at the Jatiya Press Club premises.

The processionists carried national flags and placards inscribing different slogans against the anti-liberation elements in the country.

Jote president Ramendu Majumder, journalist and columnist Faiz Ahmed, Artiste Syed Hasan Imam, Director General of Bangla Academy Dr Syed Anwar Hossain, writer Shariar Kabir, BFUJ president Abul Kalam Azad, journalists Azizul Islam Bhuiyan, Shafiqur Rahman, freedom fighter and women leader Rawshan Jahan Sathi, Hasan Arif, Kamal Pasha Chowdhury, Tarik Sujat and journalist Enamul Haq Babul, among others, took part in the procession.