BNP Standing Committee member Nazrul Islam Khan this day (29 November) questioned the justification of the sizzling agitations by Iskcon, alleging that the ‘deposed autocrat’ is linked to it.
“I ranking now not even prefer to title the organisation concerned with these fresh activities. They (Iskcon) possess branches in a bunch of international locations world broad… Search data from them wherein assorted country, aside from Bangladesh, ranking they organise processions with particular demands and disclose long marches?” he mentioned while speaking at a dialogue at the Jatiya Press Club.
The BNP chief also questioned why Iskcon had launched a circulation following the descend of Sheikh Hasina’s regime when it had remained nonetheless for the period of the repression and suppression beneath her rule.
He expressed his astonishment at how the leaders of Iskcon, as voters of Bangladesh, would per chance maybe maybe inquire the Indian government to intervene on this matter.
“Is Bangladesh a country beneath anybody’s control, or is it field to at least one other country’s actions?” he asked.
The dialogue meeting, titled ‘What We Can Fabricate to Confront Fascism and Its Associates’, was organised by Khelafat Andolon to sign its 43rd founding anniversary.
Nazrul criticised the Indian government’s assertion regarding the Iskcon anxiousness.
He expressed frustration that India had now not issued an announcement when so much of thousand folks, including youth, had been killed for the period of the July-August circulation, and even when an advocate was killed in Chattogram.
“So, if one person is arrested, you anxiousness an announcement… however when so much of thousand folks had been killed, no assertion is issued. Here is biased. Whether or now not it is done by an person or a assert, such actions are unacceptable.”
As a labour chief, Nazrul also expressed toughen for the sizzling circulation by battery-powered rickshaw drivers, declaring that their demands had been justified.
“Whenever you suspect rickshaws would per chance maybe maybe possess to nonetheless now not be allowed, you need to maybe maybe possess to nonetheless possess stopped them initially. Now there are thousands of rickshaws, and loads folks rely on them to provide a living. It’s essential to maybe maybe presumably additionally’t horny converse they would per chance presumably now not be allowed—who will settle for that?” he argued.
Then again, Nazrul famend that the personality of the circulation was now not entirely fashioned. “I realize labour movements, and this one did now not seem fashioned. Then I observed that the leaders of the circulation had been all Chhatra League people. The inquire was decent, however the skill the circulation was conducted regarded as if it’d be a conspiracy.”
In light of the most recent inform, Nazrul called for team spirit, consciousness, and vigilance to prevent any makes an attempt to undermine national team spirit or conspire against the parents.
“I succor the intervening time government to possess interaction in dialogue with all political parties, organisations, labour groups, civil society, and journalists… and work to provide a team spirit so solid that no person dares to anxiousness us,” he mentioned.
