DHAKA, Dec 5, 2024 (BSS) - Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Standing Committee member Dr. Abdul Moyeen Khan today laid emphasis on doing politics as servant of the people and said self- reformation is the main challenge of politics in the country.

“No matter how many reform commissions and reforms this government makes, there will be no benefit unless we reform ourselves. The challenge of today’s politics is to reform ourselves. We have to do politics as servant of the people,” he said.

He made the remarks while speaking as the chief guest at a memorial meeting of the International Farakka Committee (IFC) leader Atiqur Rahman Salu at the National Press Club today.

Dr. Moyeen stressed the need for unity regardless of race, religion, and caste, saying, “But in this context, I would like to warn all . . . if we try to get united in the form of BAKSHAN again, that unity will not work.”

In the July-August students-people movement, dictatorship was removed from the country at the cost of lives of several hundred people but it does not mean that democracy has returned to the country and all have to realize this truth, he said.  

The senior BNP leader opined that Bangladesh has only advanced one step in democratic transformation and it is the fall of dictatorship.

“There are two more difficult stages . . . the second one is to carry out essential reforms and ensure the voting rights of the crores of people in the country by holding a fair and impartial election and then the third and last state is to transfer power to the elected representatives of the people by the interim government,” he added.

Dr Moyeen said a people’s government must come to power, which will form an independent parliament and such important responsibility has been fallen on the current interim government.

“That is why we are giving all-out support to this government. We do not want them to fail under any circumstances. Because, if this government fails, it will not be only their failure, rather it will be the failure of the entire nation,” he opined.

Dr. Moyeen observed if the interim government and the people can use three weapons -- politics, diplomacy and, media and information technology - then the aspirations of 180 million people of Bangladesh for a democratic state will be fulfilled.

Recalling the contribution of Atiqur Rahman Salu to politics, he said that his entire life is revolved around the welfare of the country and he staged the second Farakka Long March on May 5, 2005.

He continued that Salu read the declaration of 'The Democratic Government of East Bengal'.

Jatiya Party (Zafor) Chairman Mustafa Jamal Haider, Biplobi (Revolutionary) Workers Party General Secretary Saiful Haque, IFC President Professor Jasim Uddin Ahmed, IFC Chairman Syed Tipu Sultan, Coordinator Mustafa Kamal Majumder, IFC Bangladesh Vice President Dr. Nazma Ahmed, former MP Zahiruddin Swapan, BFUJ Secretary General Kader Gani Chowdhury, National Press Club General Secretary Ayub Bhuiyan, Bhashani Anusari Parishad Convener Sheikh Rafiqul Islam Bablu, FK Emdad Khan, among others also spoke at the memorial meeting.