Freedom fighter
Bringing a taste of freedom to the barefoot slum child
Fifty-five years have passed since independence. I still remember a slogan I raised in 1972, right after independence: "We will bring the taste of freedom to the barefoot slum child." Now, standing in 2025, I must admit—we failed. But we did make the country independent. How? Back then, there wasn’t a single sponge sandal factory in this country. Bengalis didn’t even know what indenting business was. Today, we manufacture everything, from shoes to construction materials. Despite having no iron ore of our own, we are now building and exporting massive ships worldwide. A boy from my village has even built and flown a helicopter! Isn’t that something to be proud of? This is how far we have come as a nation.
Jamaat-Shibir will be banned within Wednesday: Anisul
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq has said that Jamaat-e-Islami and Bangladesh Islami Chhatrashibir will be banned by executive order within Wednesday.
The clash underneath
The implicit facts of the violence that broke out in Bangladesh remained almost untold. On the surface, it appeared to be a student movement demanding a reduction in the quota for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters. I am not repeating the facts about how the students started their protest and began demonstrating across the country. It is also true that during the protest, a large part of the country’s population primarily supported the students' cause. Even some ruling party members sympathized with the protesting students. In the first days of the protest, ruling party leaders reiterated that the decision was pending and that it was now up to the court. But it was obvious to the students that a satisfactory result would not come for them. So, they continued their protest on the streets, insisting that the executive branch should take the decision to reduce the quota. The protesters continued their blockade and obstruction.
BFUJ expresses concern over attempt to make FFs opponent
Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), the top organization of journalists, has expressed deep concern over the attempt to make the government job quota reform movement an opponent of the great liberation war and heroic freedom fighters.
HC publishes full verdict on quota
The High Court has published the full verdict in which it declared quota abolishment for first- and second-class government jobs illegal.
Quader requests quota protesters to return to classrooms
Addressing the demonstrators, he said: "Go back to your classrooms obeying the directives of the apex court."
Why is the discussion about quotas focused only on government jobs?
In April 1971, Captain Mahmud Hossain Akand of the army, the eldest son of A.K. Mosharraf Hossain Akand (1917-1995), a member of the Constitution Drafting Committee of Bangladesh, was brutally killed by the Pakistani army at Chittagong Cantonment.
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