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Hasina’s fascism reflected in the interim government: GM Quader
Jatiya Party (JPA) faction chairman GM Quader has commented that the interim government is seeing the reflection of Sheikh Hasina’s fascist government. He said that the interim government has emerged as a mirror image of Sheikh Hasina’s fascist government.
Hasina’s fascism reflected in the interim government: GM Quader
GM Quader made these comments while speaking as the chief guest at a rally organized in front of the Jatiya Party central office in Kakrail, the capital, on Saturday afternoon. A rally of Dhaka District Jatiya Party workers was organized in front of the central office.
GM Quader said, “Apart from that, we do not see any change in the character of fascism. We see the reflection, we see the reflection of the government that we call a fascist government, an authoritarian government, an oppressive government, a government of discrimination, in the current interim government.”
In this regard, GM Quader further said that at that time (during Sheikh Hasina’s time) discrimination, oppression, and injustice were created in the name of the Liberation War and the spirit of the Liberation War. Various groups were created and given privileges. And the interim government says that the Liberation War, the spirit of the Liberation War and the War of Independence and everything about the Liberation War were bad, they should be rejected.
This chairman of a section of the Jatiya Party said that the people’s expectation in the July mass uprising was to form an accountable government through democracy, where fascism would not rise, and the authoritarian government would not be able to survive.
Claiming that the Jatiya Party and its leaders and workers were on the side of the protesters in the July mass uprising, GM Quader said, ‘From July to August 5, the Jatiya Party gave speeches every day in support of the protesters. I want to make this clear today. Many say that we were allies and will not allow us to do politics. Why we will not allow us to do politics, it is clear to us. The purpose is the same, we have always spoken the mind of the people.’ He claimed that two Jatiya Party members were martyred in Rangpur during the July mass uprising.
GM Quader said that Sheikh Hasina created such an environment for the elections where they kept BNP-Jamaat out or they did not come to the elections. But she did not exclude any party by making any law. But the interim government is excluding those whom it wants to exclude by making laws.
Regarding the national elections, GM Quader said, “After Dhaka University, it has not yet been possible to make the elections acceptable at Jahangirnagar University. How will the national elections be acceptable? If we erase the history of the Liberation War and the Liberation War as we wish, the countrymen will never accept it. If we do not make everyone inclusive in the elections, then it will not be acceptable to the countrymen and abroad.”
At the gathering, Shamim Haider Patwary, Secretary General of GM Quader’s party, said that Bangladesh is going through an extremely critical situation. One is to ban or prohibit. This government did not come to ban. Everyone invited this government to build the country, to create consensus, to make necessary reforms to the constitution, to make essential reforms, to hold elections.
G M Quader, stating that reforms will not be sustainable if elections are not held, said, “If everyone is banned, then who will be the winner? What is the need for elections?…If all parties outside the government party are banned, then the elections will not be representative. As a result, the country will once again be caught in the same cycle of problems that Bangladesh was reeling under.”
The gathering was presided over by Jatiya Party Presidium member and Dhaka Metropolitan South convener Mir Abdus Sabur, and Presidium members Rezaul Islam Bhuiyan, Alamgir Sikder, Sherifa Quader, Monirul Islam, Nurunnahar, and others were present.
