Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Adviser Md Nahid Islam on Saturday said the mass uprising of 2024 is not over yet and it has to be revolutionized to establish a discrimination free society, reports BSS.
“Our government couldn’t achieve expected goals in the last two months. If we can't fulfil the logical demands or realize the goal of the mass upsurge, we will stand in the crowd again to realise those through another revolution, if required,” he said.
Nahid, also the Adviser of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, said this while speaking at a function organised in celebration of the 16th founding anniversary of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) as the chief guest.
Speaking on the occasion, he urged all to embrace the spirit of the Anti-Discrimination Student-People Movement to reach fruits of the second independence to everyone.
Nahid said that although the students gave blood in all struggles of the country and gave direction to the nation, they or the common people didn’t get the benefits of those sacrifices later.
“Rather, students have previously had a life of servitude. We don’t want to go back to a life of slavery again. Fascist structures must be dismantled in all establishments across the country to reach the fruits of second independence to all,” he said.
He said student councils will be introduced in all universities as soon as possible with a new welfare-oriented approach instead of the student politics of violence, looting, torture, terrorism and muscle power developed in the fascist framework of the past.
Referring to Shaheed Abu Sayeed as a heroic fellow fighter, Nahid Islam recalled the time of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and paid respect to the memory of Shaheed Abu Sayeed and all other martyrs.
Despite becoming a victim of discrimination in budgetary allocations, BRUR produced a national hero like Shaheed Abu Sayeed, who has kept his words by sacrificing life, and played a leading role in the movement, he added.
“So, Begum Rokeya University will no longer suffer discrimination in development allocation. I will also try my level best to establish a cyber centre in this university as per demand of the students,” he said.
Bd-pratidin English/Tanvir Raihan
