Shafiqul Alam, press secretary of the chief adviser, said on Saturday that the incumbent government will not interfere with the freedom of press that the Awami League exercised during its 15 years in power.
“The freedom of press cannot be interfered. We won’t do anything that will gag their voices. Otherwise, we will have no difference with the fascist Awami League,” he said while addressing a programme in Dhaka on Saturday.
The Jagannath University Journalists’ Association organised the discussion meeting on the role of media in the July Revolution and the future expectations.
Expressing his optimism in building the new Bangladesh upholding the spirit of the July-August mass upsurge, Shafiqul Alam, said that journalists are among the key architects of the country’s reconstruction.
“The journalists will work imbued with the spirit of the mass upsurge and it is our expectation. Otherwise, we will remain responsible to the next generation,” he said.
Claiming that the role of the journalists in the July-August mass upsurge was incomparable, he said the government is trying to find out who played what role in the revolution.
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