The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Terming all the previous and present government policies 'wrong' , speakers yesterday urged the policymakers to take decisions independently for the sake of country's real development.

Accusing all the governments for not creating employment they said, to please their foreign masters only they are shutting down industries one after another.

They were speaking at a book titled ' Choturtha Cintha' ( Forth Though) written by Eng Shafiuddin Sarker at National Press Club yesterday.

Presided over by language hero MA Matin, eminent educationist Prof Dr Sirajul Islam Chowdhury, former Dhaka University Vice-chancellor Prof Dr Emajuddin Ahmad, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Vice-chancellor Prof Dr AMM Shafiullah, Prof Anu Mohammad, Maj Gen (Retd) Amin Ahmad Chowdhury Bir Uttam and dramatist Mamunur Rashid, among others, addressed the function.

While taking part at the discussion Prof Sirajul Islam said, the oppression of the capitalism could be resisted by launching a massive social revolution.

Changing the existing political system was a must to bring an immediate end to the current worsening situation in the country, he observed .

Criticising the interference of the multi-national organisations including World Bank and International Monetary Fund , Prof Anu Mohammad alleged , they are trying to destroy the country in the name of development.

No government did dare to ignore their harmful interference, he added.