Bangladesh students who played a key role in overthrowing the Government last year announced a new political party, the last group in heated political Joseing before the expected elections.
The new Ganatantrik Chhatra Sangsador the Democratic Student Council includes key organizers of the powerful group of students against discrimination (SAD) that led the uprising that wasted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August.
The policy in Bangladesh is notoriously frantic and other students accuse them of undermining the revolution. Disputes on representation led to physical clashes among the members of the new group when their name was presented on Wednesday.
Other sad leaders are expected to, including the members that were included in the interim government that took over after Hasina fled to India, launch elsewhere separated on Friday.
He Ganatantrik Chhatra Sangsad It also includes students previously allied to the youth wing of the Hasina Awami League.
“While we accommodate Awami League students, we make sure that none of them were involved in mass murders or torture during the revolution,” said Zahid Ahsan, leader of the new group. AFP.
“We are dedicated to protecting the rights of students,” he said, adding that they wanted to “defend the spirit” of the mass movement that met to end the autocratic grip of Hasina.
Hasina, who remains in self -imposed exile in India, has challenged Dhaka’s arrest warrant to face charges that include accusations of crimes against humanity.
More than 150 people were injured in clashes between groups of rival students this month.
Muhammad Yunus, the microfinance pioneer winner of the Nobel Prize that directs the caregiver’s government, has said that the general elections will take place at the end of 2025 or early 2026.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Hasina’s opponent, is widely expected to dominate the elections.
EX-PM Khaleda Zia asks for elections
Separately, the BNP leader, Khaleda Zia, asked the interim authorities to undertake “minimal” reforms so that the elections can be held quickly after a revolution last year.
“People expect a widely accepted choice after rapid and minimal reforms to restore the country’s democratic system,” said Zia, former prime minister and BNP leader, in a transmission.
Zia, 79, served as Prime Minister of the Nation of South Asia twice, but was imprisoned for corruption in 2018 during Sheikh Hasina’s mandate, his successor and rival of a lifetime.
She was released after Hasina was demolished in August and fled to exile in India, before flying to Great Britain in January to receive medical treatment, from where he made an online speech to the party members, the first in six years.
“Unite the party and prepare to lead both the movements and the nation,” Khaleda urged BNP members. “The country is going through a critical period. The fascist regime was forced to flee due to the movements led by students and yourself. ”
The Hasina government was accused of politicizing the courts and civil service, as well as by organizing the unpleasant elections, to dismantle democratic controls over their power.
Zia asked Bangladeshis to join to address the deterioration of law and order. “The friends and allies of the fascists are plotting conspiracies to undermine the achievements of the massive uprising,” said Zia.
“We must frustrate these conspiracies through unwavering unit between us and with the people of Bangladesh.”
