Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Mia Golam Parwar has said that the failure to implement the July Charter after the July 2024 revolution, to implement the people’s verdict in the referendum, and to reform the constitution and the structure of the state is giving the fascists the chance to carry out such terrorist activities.
He said this in a statement on Tuesday (10 November). He condemned and protested the crude bomb blasts and arson attacks on public transport across the country by the fallen fascists, and the government’s failure to suppress the terrorists.
In the statement he said the fallen fascists and Awami terrorists were disrupting public safety by setting off crude bombs and setting fire to buses and other public transport in the capital Dhaka and across the country, but the government’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies were failing to stop them. “We strongly condemn and protest the government’s failure to confront the fascist and terrorist forces, and all terrorist activities,” he said.
Golam Parwar said that in recent days terrorists had set off crude bombs at no fewer than 50 places in the country, including Mohakhali, Khilgaon, Pallabi, Farmgate and in front of the courts in the capital, and had set fire to public transport and to various buildings, including a CID office.
But the government’s intelligence agencies and law enforcement had been unable to take any effective step, which was very worrying, he said.
He cited the blockade and crude bomb blasts at the toll plaza on the Jajira end of the Padma Bridge; the burning of a police vehicle from a procession by leaders and activists of the banned Chhatra League carrying poles and oars in Tungipara, Gopalganj; and the death of a driver, Kalachan Sheikh (34), in a fire set to a bus in Faridpur. These, he said, recalled the horrific events at Paltan on 28 October 2006.
He said again that the failure to implement the July Charter and the people’s verdict in the referendum, and to reform the constitution and the structure of the state, was giving the fascists the chance to carry out such terrorist activities.
Besides, he said, it would not be possible for the fascists to run such a rampage across the country without the astonishing inaction, and a kind of indirect cooperation, of the government’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies. For this reason the BNP government cannot escape responsibility for these terrorist activities.
Golam Parwar said the government must take effective steps to ensure the country’s stability and the safety of its citizens. As a responsible opposition party, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has offered criticism, cooperation and advice in various ways to protect citizens and establish their rights, but the BNP government is not listening, he said.
This has deepened the law and order crisis, he said. The government is pursuing a ploy to shift onto the opposition a crisis created by its own irresponsibility towards the people, and its scheming wish to blame the opposition for the country’s instability will not be fulfilled. “We believe the government must crack down hard on the Awami League’s arson terror, attacks and blasts. Otherwise the government will have to bear the responsibility for the failure,” he said.
He also said that to resist the fascists the government must immediately implement the July Charter and the referendum verdict and change the constitution and the structure of the state, so that no fascist can rise again and terrorism cannot continue in Bangladesh. Otherwise Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami would be forced to announce new programmes to win the people’s just demands, which would put the government in a double bind. At the same time, the government must compensate those harmed in the terrorist attacks and ensure proper treatment for the injured, he said.
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