Fakhrul Says Forces Opposed to 1971 Are Resurgent, Warns Against Trusting Them

News report

Addressing Jamaat-e-Islami, the killers of 1971 and allies of the Pakistani invaders, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said, “There is no reason to trust those who denied Bangladesh’s independence.”

He said that the same anti-independence forces that opposed the country’s independence in 1971 are rising again in a new form. They are now changing their faces and presenting themselves as if they can build a new Bangladesh, but the people of the country do not believe it.

He made these remarks at a discussion meeting organized by the Nationalist Freedom Fighters Party on the occasion of Martyred Intellectuals Day at the Institution of Diploma Engineers in Kakrail, Dhaka, on Sunday, December 14.

Mirza Fakhrul said, “The question has come to the fore today, which way this independent land, acquired through much sacrifice and bloodshed, will go—in the ideals of independence, or in the path of those who once wanted to destroy independence. Because the anti-independence forces are again trying to mislead people in the name of religion, just as they did in 1971.”

He also said that there is no reason to believe those who have denied the independence of Bangladesh.

Recalling history, he said that this force opposed the Pakistan movement in 1947 and opposed the independence of Bangladesh in 1971. Yet today they are the ones who are coming forward with a new face and talking about building a country, which the people will not accept.

Highlighting the significance of Martyred Intellectuals Day, the BNP Secretary General said that on December 14, 1971, the Pakistani occupying forces and their collaborators systematically killed the best children of the country so that the future Bangladesh could be devoid of talent. However, that conspiracy did not succeed and within two days, the Pakistani forces were forced to surrender. He said that success comes not through conspiracy, but through the path of truth and struggle.

Stating that the country is standing at an important juncture, Mirza Fakhrul said, a democratic and liberal Bangladesh must be built through the unity of the people without bowing to any conspiracy or plot.

He said, “No new fascism can be allowed to rise in Bangladesh. Those who want to push the country backward must be resisted. The people of this country have never accepted any ideology being imposed by force and will not accept it in the future.”

The discussion meeting was presided over by Nationalist Freedom Fighters Party President Ishtiaq Aziz Ulfat. BNP Chairperson’s Advisor Abdus Salam, Moazzem Hossain Alal, BNP Executive Committee Liberation War Affairs Secretary Lt. Col. (retd) Zainul Abedin and other leaders spoke at the meeting.