Chuadanga: Hasnat Abdullah, convener of the anti-discrimination student movement, said, "A political aspiration is being created among the young generation. We have seen that our senior leadership has failed to understand the language of our young generation. They have failed to understand the humanity of our youth. They have failed to understand the words of our youth. There is a distance between the thoughts and consciousness of our youth, our psychology. Where the seniors think that using mobile phones is the mastermind of destruction, we have seen that our mass uprising alliance was formed through this social media."
Hasnat Abdullah said these things at the Chuadanga Shilpakala Academy's Muktamancha Chuadanga Rising program organized by the Chuadanga Citizens Committee on Monday (January 27) at 4:30 pm. He also said, "Our senior politicians were compromisers. We have seen that we have information about who compromised with Sheikh Hasina in the three elections. Who had business relations with the Awami League, the murderer Sheikh Hasina. Who had kinship relations with the murderer Sheikh Hasina. We know these things. So, those of you who are thinking about the rehabilitation of the Awami League, leaving aside the trial of the Awami League, you are brokering with this young generation.’
Hasnat Abdullah said, ‘We know who had kinship relations with the Awami League. Some are brokering to rehabilitate the Awami League. They are thinking about whether the Awami League will remain in the next election or not. But they are not saying anything about the punishment of the Awami League. Hasina-Awami League cannot buy us. They cannot buy us by giving us seats in parliament. We have to maintain the political awareness that has been created among our young generation. Please do not become power-hungry. Those who have come to power have had to flee the country.’
He said, ‘Whether Awami League will contest the elections or not is a discussion later. First, murderers Hasina, Obaidul Quader, Asaduzzaman will have to be tried. The Awami League committee list will have to be tried. Then there will be a discussion on whether Awami League will contest the elections or not. First, raise demands from political parties to ensure justice. Awami League has looted our country’s money and smuggled lakhs and crores of taka abroad.’
Hasnat Abdullah urged the students to remain united and said that if the student community of this country works together, it will not lose to the forces that manipulate tyranny. Never forget those who have been victims of Awami League’s oppression. The sacrifices of these students, who gave their lives on the streets, will help build our future. He also said, ‘You don’t need my political division. We will build the next Bangladesh. The fascists benefit from our division. We have to be united to prevent the Awami League from resettling.’
Hasnat Abdullah said in reference to Chuadanga district, ‘There has been no infrastructural development in Chuadanga. There is no alternative to educational institutions for development. There has been no significant educational institution in Chuadanga. We expect that the interim government or whichever government comes will have to give importance to the development of education.’
He also said, ‘But you are on the side of Chuadanga. Even if you resist, they will have to go to Dhaka. You will enter in pieces, be careful. Those who voted in the three elections during the Awami League period, they voted 30-40. And those who could not vote, they could not vote at all. You have had to go through torture for the last 16 years. The name of the murderer Sheikh Hasina will be written in history due to the genocide.’
The program, chaired by Aslam Hossain Arko, convener of the Chuadanga District Committee of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and conducted by Member Secretary Saffatul Islam, was addressed as special guests by Nusrat Tabassum, central coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, Molla Ehsan, central international cell member of the National Citizens Committee, Babu Khan, central co-coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, Imtiaz Ahmed, convener of the Meherpur District Committee of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, Mustafizur Rahman, member secretary of Kushtia District, and SM Ashraf Sweet, member of the Islamic University, among others.
