Nahid demands cancellation of Awami League’s registration

Nahid Islam, convener, Jatiya Nagorik Party. UNB_11zon

Narayangnj, Mar 24 - Calling Awami League (AL) a terrorist organisation, National Citizen Party (NCP) Convenor Nahid Islam on Monday demanded that the registration of the party (AL) be cancelled.

Speaking virtually at an iftar event organised by the party’s Narayanganj district unit, Nahid, a former adviser to the interim government, said his party will resist if any effort is made to rehabilitate the AL again, alleging that some quarters are trying to rehabilitate it.

Even before the past 15 years, the AL also had established fascism earlier and you (party fellows) know how much oppressions had been carried by the party on people, he said.

Recalling the role of the Narayanganj people in the July uprising, he said the NCP was launched with new political aspirations, and it aims to build the country afresh in continuation with the July uprising.

Seeking support from people to build a new Bangladesh, Nahid said they have been demanding justice of the mass killers, structural reforms of the country and elections to the Constituent Assembly.

He said ensuring visible judgment of the AL for the fascism before the next election is one of the main demands of the NCP.

If the trial of AL fascists is not ensured after the mass uprising, then it is not certain that the country will not see another fascism, Nahid said.

Expressing his party’s firm stance on the reforms and changes, he alleged that some parties are going back to the past’s arrangements and expressing reluctance to the reforms.

“New Bangladesh is not possible with the old constitution as the constitution we have requires the election of a Constituent Assembly,” he observed.

Urging leaders and workers to stand against extortion and supremacy, Nahid expressed his desire to stand by fellows to sort out their problems. - UNB