Form alternative left-leaning force
Urge CPB, BSD leaders
Leaders of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) yesterday called upon the country's people to form an “alternative left-leaning force” to ensure democracy and human rights in the country.
Left-leaning, democratic and patriotic political parties should also unite to this end, they said.
The leaders were addressing a discussion, “Prevailing political situation of the country and what needs to be done”, organised by CPB and BSD at Muslim Institute Hall in Chittagong city.
At present, people's security is at stake and democracy and human rights have been “forcibly shrunk”, said the leaders.
BSD General Secretary Khalequzzaman said there was no misdeed left undone in the last 41 years by the ruling class and the misdeeds continue to rise in number.
Nothing but socialism could provide emancipation to the masses and a mass uprising was needed to bring socialism, he said.
Khalequzzaman urged the country's people to create a “real left-leaning political alternative” which is imbued with true spirit of the 1971 Liberation War.
CPB Presidium Member Haider Akbar Khan Rono said, “We want an ideology-based left-leaning alternative force to strengthen democracy and ensure rights of the country's people.”
None of the governments which came to power since independence could ensure human rights in the country. Rather poverty, unemployment and incidents of torture on the working people have gradually increased, he said.
He urged the country's people to unite against plunderers of the country's wealth and “two-party politics of capitalists' classes” to form a “left-leaning alternative force”.
Convener of BSD, Manash Nandi, and general secretary of CPB, Chittagong district, Md Shah Alam, spoke at the meeting with president of CPB, Chittagong district, Mrinal Chowdhury, in the chair.
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