Jatiya Nagorik Committee chief organizer Sarjis Alam said listening to the so called ‘story of development’ in the past 16 years of Hasina regime, it felt like we are no longer in Bangladesh; rather we are living on Mars.
“Where is this development visible now?” he asked.
He said this at a mass rally at the Municipal Shaheed Minar in Moulvibazar's Srimangal on Sunday evening. The rally was held with a view to completely abolishing the fascist system, building a new political settlement and incorporating the people's aspirations of the Proclamation of July Revolution, distributing leaflets of the July Declaration and at a tea workers' rally.
Sarjis Alam said, “Didn't Sheikh Hasina's attention go from Gopalganj to Kamalganj, didn't she come from Tungipara to the neighborhoods where tea workers live? Development has only took place to the Sheikh family and to a few people. They have built hundreds of cars and houses in Europe, America and Canada.
He said that Sheikh Kabir was also the chairman of the NTC. If these sheikhs and sheikhs' daughters grasp everything, on what the tea workers will live on? The faces of the tea worker mothers and sisters have become to pale to see it. What a situation they are in! They burnt in the sun and soaked in the rain! The system of slavery from a hundred years ago still remains in the tea gardens.
Joint convener of Jatiya Nagorik Committee Sarwar Tushar and central organizing secretary Pritam Das spoke at the tea workers' rally held at the Kurma tea garden ground under the chairmanship of Dhana Bauri, president of Manu-Dhalai Valley branch of the Bangladesh Tea Workers Union. In addition, central and local leaders of Jatiya Nagorik Committee and the Student against Discrimination were also present there.
Sarjis Alam also said that some people exploited the people of Bangladesh from within and outside the country, and that exploitation attitude has become part and parcel of their blood. Therefore, everyone must fight against them unitedly.
Bd-pratidin English/Lutful Hoque
