The year has turned around and August 5th has come: Admit it, you were deceived or fooled!

Opinion

After the defeat in the Shahbagh movement, the Jamaat camp went into even more secrecy. At that time, we used the KP test or jackfruit leaf test to detect the Jamaat camp. If we were caught in the KP test, we would call him “Chagu”. Chagu is the short form of goat. However, not all goats are goats. Goats have a little beard on their snouts. This goat, which is called Markhor, is the national animal of Pakistan. So, one of the few indicators to identify this goat in the KP test was, “My father or my uncle or my grandfather or my maternal uncle are also freedom fighters, but it is not right to judge scholars like this.” Or, “I am also the son of a freedom fighter family, but it is said that 3 million died in 1971, which is false. Bangabandhu was saying 3 million, forgetting 3 million!” Or, “One of my aunts saw Sayeedi on the moon. Sayeedi was a child during the Liberation War. How did he become a Razakar?!”

The girl who slapped the table with Justice Manik and said, “I am also a child of a freedom fighter family,” has been doing talk shows ever since, sitting on either side of Shibir and Jamaat leaders. When this girl sweetly calls out Jamaat-Shibir leaders as “Manju Bhai” or “Fuad Bhai”, or “Masud Bhai”, or “Shishir Bhai” etc. on the talk show, it seems like they are the girl’s cousins.

I don’t understand how Jamaat-e-Shibir has managed to come out of its completely secretive state. They are the ones who are now enjoying state power. They are occupying every level of the government. Even though Mahfuz Alam, Akhtar Hossain, and Nahid Islam call themselves “X Shibir” and are semi-secret camps, why are they still not saying “we are actually Jamaat-e-Shibir”? Or do they still feel defeated by the Liberation War?

The new party called NCP is entirely from Jamaat-Shibir. Those who hold the liberation war of Bangladesh cannot ask them to abolish the constitution achieved through the liberation war. After the brutal defeat in 1971, Jamaat needed a victory. They will celebrate that victory to the fullest by abolishing the 1972 constitution and adopting a new constitution. Through this, Muhammad Yunus’s “pressing the reset button” will be implemented. The fact that various Chhatra League leaders of Dhaka University are now exposing some of the NCP as Shibir leaders is also their trick. Be it Abdul Quader or Mahin, be it Nahid or Sargis or Hasnat, be it Umama or Tasnim Zara, everyone seems to be my Shibir’s companions.

In July 2024, under the banner of “ordinary students”, the anti-quota movement led by Islami Chhatra Shibir filled the campus with posters calling Bangabandhu a “great leader” and writing “There is no place for discrimination in Bangabandhu’s Bengal” along with his picture. By playing songs of the liberation war, songs and slogans of awakening, Bangabandhu’s speeches, etc., people from all walks of life in the country were involved in the movement, and hundreds of innocent and emotional children (among them, Abu Sayeed and many students and teenage gangs instigated the police to open fire) were pushed in front of the state forces’ rifle barrels and killed. The true face of those leaders of the secret camp gradually began to be revealed through the vandalism and arson of Dhanmondi No. 32, the demolition of Bangabandhu’s portraits and murals, the pressure to change the freedom fighter’s association, the naming of the freedom fighter as “July Fighter”, the donation of “30 lakh” taka to each (in return for 30 lakh martyrs), the slogan of Mujibabad Murdabad, and finally the announcement of the NCP’s 24-point “Manifesto for a New Bangladesh”, the first point of which was to repeal the old constitution and declare a new constitution.

They know very well that the independence gained in the bloody war of 1971 is the main foundation of the constitution of Bangladesh. The only defeated force of that war, Jamaat-e-Islami, wants to erase 1971. The responsibility of implementing this agenda of Jamaat has fallen on the hands of the NGO government led by Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus. In the meantime, you have come to know that during the Awami League government, the head of DGFI had developed an alliance with Jamaat-e-Islami. The secret documents and decisions of the government would go through the Ameer of Jamaat to Ilyas and Shayers. Even the secret talks and documents of the Prime Minister’s Office would go through Naimul Islam Khan to the hands of the brains of the agitators, Shafiqul Alam.

This meticulum plan of Jamaat-e-Islami is not a one-day plan. Muhammad Yunus was literally telling the truth at the time. It is a long-term plan. They have taken over the state power by fooling the people of the country. We saw the first symptom of it on August 5 last year in the speech of the Army Chief at Senakunj, when he announced the name of the Ameer of the officially banned Jamaat. Then, one by one, all the long-standing demands of Jamaat were realized.

– Hasan Mahmud Tipu
Assistant Professor, Carleton University