Ganatantra Manch wants govt to resign taking reasonability

Saiful Huq GS Biplabi Workers Party

The Ganatantra Manch of left political parties, waging simultaneous movement with the BNP, on Tuesday demanded immediate resignation of the government taking responsibility for the killings during the job quota reform movement of the student community.

Saiful Huq, general secretary of the Biplabi Workers’ Party who voiced the demand on behalf of the alliance accused the government of perpetrating repression on the students and the people by shutting down Internet. The killings went on as the people were cut off from all sorts of communication within the country and abroad.

He said that students and the people were not only shot at sight but also killed by firing guns from helicopters-turned gunships. Hundreds of students and minors were killed. Such heinous killing was not experienced even during the 23 years of Pakistan rule, he said.

Saiful Huq said the students had started a disciplined and peaceful movement for quota reforms as this closed chapter was reopened through a High Court ruling on 5 June and the government refused to accept their demands.

Instead threats were given to suppress the movement by deploying the Chhatra League which attacked the workers of the quota reform movement at different universities and six of them were killed on 16 July in Dhaka, Rangpur and other places.

The attack led to a countrywide student rebellion and the police responded by resorting to disproportionate use of force and indiscriminate firing. Not even children playing on rooftops of buildings, or standing on verandas or reading book siting beside windows were spared. 

He said that the government instead of saying sorry for the killings started projecting destruction of property blaming those on students and the people. He said Ganatantra Manch wanted a thorough investigation into the killings and the destruction of property to punish the perpetrators. – GreenWatch News Desk