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Head lines Degeneration of students politics worries civil society DU CORRESPONDENT, The Independent Speakers at a discussion said that the mainstream political parties of the country were responsible for the degeneration of the student politics. The student bodies should forsake the subservience to the political parties if their glorious past were to be resorted, they observed. "The regular election of students’ unions at the educational institutions will inspire the participation of regular and meritorious students in students politics," the speakers said. The discussion titled "student politics in the light of merit," was held yesterday in the auditorium of Business Studies Faculty of Dhaka University, organised by the Centre for Idea Innovation (CII), a non political organisation of meritorious, creative and innovative students of the university, in co-operation with City University. Noted poet and columnist Farhad Mazhar presided over the discussion, conducted by president of the CII, Nurul Karim Bhuiyan. Editor of the New Age Enayetullah Khan, Organising Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League (AL) Mahmudur Rahman Manna, Student Affairs Secretary of the BNP Fazlul Haque Milon MP, Vice Chancellor of the City University Prof Shamsul Haque, former President of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) Asaduzzaman Ripon, President of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Liaquat Shikder, General Secretary of the JCD Azizul Bari Helal, president of Bangladesh Chhatra Union Luna Nur, President of Bangladesh Chhatra Moitri Sabbah Ali Colins, President of Bangladesh Chhatra League (JSD) Shariful Kabir Swapan and President of Chhatra Front Khalequzzaman Lipon took part at the discussion. Farhad Mazhar said, "we have been trapped in a ‘political syndicate’ for the bickering between the two main political parties." Enayetullah Khan said the students are a classless social group, where sons of both the rich and poor intermix. "The political class is the most corrupt in our country," Khan said. Mahmudur Rahman said that nurturing of merit is require at the central level at first if the student bodies are to develop. "If BNP and AL leaders come to a mutual reconciliation, vital problems of the country could be resolved," he said. Liaquat Shikder said the degeneration of the student politics is the reflection of the general unrest prevailing in the society, with corruption and terrorism holding sway. If the meritorious students of the country do not enter to the student politics the whole nation will suffer ultimately, he said. Islamic militancy growing under govt patronage: AL UNB, DHAKA, The Independent Opposition Awami League yesterday (Monday) alleged that Islamic extremist groups are expanding their networks under different names under shelter of the BNP-Jamaat government, pushing the country towards a confrontational situation. Expressing the party’s concern at the reports about the militants, fund collection and distribution of leaflets by them at Boalmari of Faridpur, AL general secretary Abdul Jalil MP observed that such militant outfits were mushrooming in the name of religion. And thus, he said, the country is being turned into a safe sanctuary of strife and terrorism. The AL leader cited past incidents of Islamic extremism at Kotalipara and Baniarchar church in Gopalganj, Udichi function in Jessore, Ramna Batamul, Joypurhat, Satkhira, Narikelbaria of Rajshahi, cinema halls in Mymensingh, Jahanbad of Dinajpur, Hujrapur of Chapainawabganj, Sylhet and Sunamganj. Jalil said without taking any action against them, the BNP-Jamaat government was, in fact, defending them. Despite recovery of huge arms and ammunition from the Islamic extremists at Khetlal in Joypurhat, the Home Minister had stated that the incident was not a threat to Bangladesh as the militants don’t have much stock of weapons. "The Home Minister perhaps made those remarks to cover up the government’s patronage to the extremist Islamic groups and Sarbahara parties," says the Awami League statement. Citing newspaper reports on the arrest of Islamic extremists from a BNP leader’s house at Boalmari, publication of photos of the State Minister and Ministers with terrors in Chittagong and the photo of an MP with three top terrors after the killing of AL leader Manjurul Imam in Khulna, the party asked if the Home Minister could "deny the facts". It mentioned variegated organisations coming up, such as Harkatul Jihad, Jijbut Touhid, Shahadat-e-Al Hikma, Allar Dal, Islami Juba Sangha and Jama’atul Mujahidin. "It is not unknown to the people why the government mysteriously keeps silent about these organisations, particularly after series of newspaper reports on their activities and expansion of networks," says the AL statement, issued by its general secretary. The Awami League leader drew the conclusion that government’s lenient attitude towards these fundamentalist extremist organisations demonstrates that these outfits are engaged in bloody conflicts under the care and instruction of the government. He demanded immediate arrest of "extreme fundamentalist militants" and "identified terrorists". Govt trying to gag people’s voice of protests: Hasina Hartal shifted to Sept 27 STAFF REPORTER, The Independent Awami League President Sheikh Hasina said yesterday that the BNP-Jamaat alliance government was gagging the people’s voice of protests against its misdeeds and misrule through repression and political persecution on its opponents. "No dictatorial rulers in the past could gag the people’s voice and this time too this corrupt and repressive government would not succeed in its mission," she said while addressing a big public meeting at Kalabagan playground in the city. Sheikh Hasina, also Leader of the Opposition, announced a revised schedule of the nation-wide dawn-to-dusk hartal on September 27 (Saturday) that was earlier scheduled for September 25 (Thursday) as the day coincided with the Holy Shab-e-Meraj. The decision to shift the hartal programme to Saturday from Thursday was taken at an emergency meeting of the Awami League Presidium held in the morning at party’s Dhanmondi office with Sheikh Hasina in the chair. The AL chief called upon the people from all strata to make Saturday’s hartal a grand success for re-establishing their fundamental rights, including rights to food and franchise. During her 40-minute speech, Sheikh Hasina dwelt on various national issues blasting the alliance government for, what she said, its ‘miserable failure’ to run the state affairs. The Dhanmondi-Mohammadpur-Hazaribagh unit of Awami League organised the public meeting protesting serious deterioration in law and order situation across the country, price spiral of essentials, lack of safety and security in public life and escalation of incidents of bribery, corruption and irregularities under the rule of the BNP-led alliance government. Presided over by former lawmaker of the area and adviser of Awami Swechhasebak League Mokbul Hossain, the huge public meeting was also addressed by party presidium member Zillur Rahman, general secretary Abdul Jalil, Dhaka City unit president Mohammad Hanif, general secretary Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya (Bir Bikram), Advocate Quamrul Islam, Kamal Ahmed and Rekha Islam, wife of a slain Awami League leader of the locality. The Awami League chief demanded immediate stoppage to the killings of her party’s popular leaders and workers, terrorism, political persecution, spiralling prices of essentials, incidents of crimes and other anti-social activities in the country. Failing which, she said, "the government has no right to stay in power anymore." Sheikh Hasina accused the government of ‘killing’ democracy, making the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) ineffective, politicising the administration and the judiciary as well as pushing this country of immense potentialities on the verge of ruination through its misrule and misdeeds over the past 23 months. The Awami League chief bitterly criticised the government for the passage of ‘anti-people’ Bangladesh Bar Council Amendment Bill in the Parliament on Wednesday with the ‘ulterior motive to politicise’ all the national institutions, including Bangladesh Bar Council. "The government has been ruining the three main pillars of governance one after another," she said adding that as an impact of that foreign direct investment, gross domestic production, export income, per capita income and rate of literacy have dropped alarmingly. Bringing allegations of unbridled corruption and politicisation of all the sectors against the alliance government, Sheikh Hasina told her audience, who waited for hours to listen to their leader amid a heavy shower, that the Prime Minister’s family has siphoned off Tk 11,000 crore of public money and smuggled the amount abroad for installing an industry in Malaysia. On the other hand, she said, the BNP-led alliance government has thrown out of employment thousands of workers and employees by closing down the state-owned mills and factories, one after another. "People would take account of the looted public money, penny by penny, one day from the family members of the Prime Minister," she said adding: "The country can’t run like this and the people don’t want to see looting of their money and anymore dead bodies." Portraying a grim picture of deteriorating law and order situation across the country, the Awami League chief said 24,000 popular organisers of her party, including Mir Mozammel Huq and SR Palash in Dhaka, Advocate Manjurul Imam and Quamrul Islam Kutu in Khulna, Dr SK Mukherjee in Jhenidah and Mamtazuddin in Natore, were killed as the government had released from jails some 53,000 identified terrorists and criminals. "It seems the government of Begum Zia is taking revenge against the people, particularly against the Awami Leaguers," she said adding that the people of Bangladesh have got nothing but dead bodies, corruption, political persecution and terrorism over the past 23 months of this government’s rule. Sheikh Hasina also alleged that the government was implicating the leaders and activists of her party in ‘false’ cases and even under the Speedy Trial Act utilising the same Tribunal to harass them. HC’s on AL boycott of CPA meet Staff Reporter, Jatiya Sangsad, The Independent Speaker Barrister Jamiruddin Sircar will have talks with the High Commissioners of Commonwealth countries over the forthcoming conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) to be held in Dhaka October 4-8. He will brief the High Commissioners posted in Dhaka about the situation arising out of the decision of the main opposition Awami League not to join the CPA conference. This was disclosed yesterday by Deputy Speaker Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui in his office at the Jatiya Sangsad while talking to reporters. He also informed that the Speaker had already had talks with the High Commissioners of the UK and Australia. The Deputy Speaker, however, could not confirm whether the two political secretaries to the Prime Minister were excluded from the Steering Committee of the CPA conference as demanded by Awami League. The Deputy Speaker also disclosed that six lawmakers of Zambia have withdrawn their names from the conference as there was no democratic rule in the country. He also confirmed that Pakistan would not be allowed to participate in the conference as an observer. The Speaker, the Deputy Speaker and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition are scheduled to represent Bangladesh in the CPA conference. But it is not clear whether the Deputy Leader of the Opposition who is an AL lawmaker, would join the conference. A total of 515 legislators and observers have so far confirmed their participation in the conference. |
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