BNP Committed to July Charter, opposition misleads people

Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Minister for LGRD and secretary geenral of BNP addressing a meeting organised on the 6th anniversary of death of Prof. Emajuddin Ahmed on GFridayb at the National Press Club.

GreenWatch Desk

LGRD Minister and BNP secretary general Mirza Fakrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said that his party would continue to chart the path of liberal democracy as championed by political scientist and former Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University Prof. Emajuddin Ahmed.

He was speaking at a Emajuddin Ahmed memorial meeting organised to mark the 6th anniversary of death of the great teacher and researcher who played the roles of an intellectual guide of the nation for decades.

The meeting jointly organised by the Prof. Emajuddin Ahmed Research Centre and the National Association of Journalists at the National Press Club was presided over by former DU Vice Chancellor Prof Anwarullah Chowdhury.

Mirza Fakhrul termed the threat from the opposition to settle the question of implementation of the July Declaration through movement on the street as a move to mislead the people. He said that the BNP was pledge-bound to implement the July Declaration word for word as it understands the resolution adopted by the political parties.

He said at 25 places in the July Declaration is there a mention that a political party winning the election will run the country as per its election manifesto. His party was doing exactly this. BNP started the movement for repair of the statecraft before any other party conceptualised it, he said.

Prof. Anwarullah Chowdhury termed Emajuddin Ahmed as a successful teacher and researcher who worked for the creation of knowledge and served as an intellectual guide to the nation when democracy was in peril.

Prof. Kamrul Ahsan, VC of Jahangirnagar University said Prof. Emajuddin Ahmed played a glorious role as the VC of Dhaka University as compared to his successors during the nearly 16 years of Awami Leage following which not even a single Assistant Professor was found to represent the While Panel in the Senate election.

The discussion was also addressed by Prof. Abdul Latif Masum, former VC of Patuakhali University and Convener of Prof. Emajuddin Ahmed Research Centre, Abul Kashem Haider an eminent industrialist, Hasan Hafiz, former editor of Kaler Kantha and president of National Press Club, Mostafa Kamal Majumder, former editor of The New Nation currently editing the GreenWatch, Abdul Hye Sikdar, editor the daily Jugantar and M Abdullah, joint editor of Amar Desh Among others.

Mostafa Kamal Majumder said that Prof. Emajuddin Ahmed as a political scientist filled a long gap that remained in the intellectual arena of Bangladesh after the roles played by renowned political scientists Prof. Abdur Razzak and Prof. Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury in Bangladesh. He lamented that the autocratic rulers had filed a murder case against him for going before the BNP office in Gulshan where its chairman Begum Khaleda was held under an undeclared detention.