The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Dhaka

Awami League Presidium Member Amir Hossain Amu on Sunday alleged that a vested quarters particularly the anti-liberation forces are hatching a conspiracy to make Bangladesh a failed state.

"The successive governments after assassination of Bangabandhu took initiatives to rehabilitate criminals, who were involved in heinous crimes like looting, raping and killing during the war of liberation and they gave a final shape to the conspiracy by sharing state power with them," he said while addressing a discussion marking the national mourning day.

Dainik Bangajanani organised the discussion on the 33rd martyrdom day of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the architect of Independent Bangladesh, at Jatiya Press Club here on Sunday morning.

Presided over by Dr Major (retd) Mujibur Rahman, advisory editor of the daily, the discussion was addressed, among others, by AL Labour Affair Secretary Habibur Rahman Siraj, former lawmaker and labour leader Shahjahan Khan, editor of Bangladesh Observer Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, general secretary of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) Omar Faruque, Juba League leader Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury, Adviser of ATN Bangla (programme) Nowajesh Ali Khan and Bangajanani Editor Quamruzzaman Zia.

Paying tribute to the memories of Bangabandhu, AL leader Amu said the defeated forces in the war of liberation created August 15 under a different identity.

These forces again staged the August 21 carnage to eliminate Awami League and pro-liberation forces, he added. The AL leader also reiterated his party's demand to hold general election by October and other elections, including the upazila polls, after it.

The other speakers demanded immediate execution of the verdict in Bangabandhu murder case and to declare Bangabandhu as father of the nation officially.

Describing the long history of Independence movement, they said many leaders tried to make contribution in this regard, but Bangabandhu had presented an Independent Bangladesh to the Bengali Nation.

The discussants urged leaders and workers and the people from all strata to be imbued with the politics of sacrifice discarding greed and gain for establishing the ideals and spirit of Bangabandhu.