DHAKA, June 7, 2024 (BSS)- Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader

today recalled the consequences of the six-point demand and said those who
have no respect for this historic event, they never believe in the country's
independence.

"The historic six-point demand is the turning point of the long struggle of
the country's liberation war movement," he said.

Quader, also Road Transport and Bridges Minister, made this remark to the
journalists marking the historic six-point day after showing homage at the
portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in front
of Bangabandhu Bhaban in the city this morning.

On June 7 in 1966, the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
launched a massive movement against the misrule of the Pakistanis on the
basis of the six-point demand, the Magna Carta of the Bangalees, seeking
autonomy for the then East Pakistan.
 
Terming this historic event as the milestone in the country's long struggle
for independence, the senior ruling party leader said staging a movement for
execution of the six-point charter along with the strike on June 7 that
killed several labour leaders ultimately triggered 11-point agitation, led by
the student forum.

The six-point charter came in the wake of the war that broke out between
India and Pakistan in 1965 when the people of East Bengal remained totally
unprotected as there was no importance to the central government of Pakistan
for protecting this region, he noted.
 
Highlighting the necessity of six-point demand, the AL general secretary said
the mass upsurge in 1969 would not have taken place if it had not been for
the six-point demand.

Quader said the assassins of Bangabandhu didn't allow the observance of June
7 or March 7 after 1975. They, who were involved in the assassination of
Bangabandhu and most of his family members on August 15 in 1975 and did not
accept the country's independence, banned the historic days during their
tenure, he added.

"These evil forces not only had killed Bangabandhu but wanted to kill our
spirit of the Liberation War and also the ideology of the independence as
well and that's why 'Joy Bangla' and also these remarkable days like June 7
and March 7 were exiled along with Bangabandhu," he explained.

Awami League Presidium Members Abdur Razzaq, Dr. Mustafa Jalal Mohiuddin,
Joint General Secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif and AFM Bahauddin Nasim,
Organising Secretaries Mirza Azam, SM Kamal Hossain, Science and Technology
Secretary Engineer Abdus Sabur and Office Secretary Barrister Biplob Barua,
among others, were present.