Senior Journalist leaders under the banner of “Muktijouddher Chetanar Sangbadik Forum (Journalists Forum being imbued with the spirit of Liberation War)” in a meeting today called upon the pro-Liberation forces and countrymen to forge unity against terrorists and murderers of the BNP-Jamaat clique ahead of the upcoming national polls.
Held at the Jatiya Press Club here, former and current leaders of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) and Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) and Jatiya Press Club (JPC) also reiterated their demand for the immediate execution of the 21 August grenade attack case verdict as they were holding a discussion marking the 21 August grenade attack.
They strongly condemned the grisly grenade attack on the day in 2004, saying that the then BNP-Jamaat government patronized the attack only to kill incumbent Prime Minister and AL President Sheikh Hasina but also to destroy the AL leaderships forever.
The meeting demanded immediate execution of the verdict against BNP leader Tarique Rahman, the then state minister for Home Affairs Lutfuzzaman Babor and others.
The journalist leaders held the top leadership of the BNP-Jamaat government, especially BNP leader Tarique Rahman, responsible for the heinous attack that left 24 people including senior AL leader Ivy Rahman killed and injured many others.
Forum president Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury presided over the meeting.
Senior journalist and former JPC president Shahfiqur Rahman, MP, Managing Director and Chief Editor of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) Abul Kalam Azad, BFUJ President Omar Faroque, former BFUJ presidents Manzurul Ahsan Bulbul and Molla Jalal, former JPC President Saiful Alam, former JPC general secretary Swapan Saha, former BFUJ secretary general Abdul Jalil Bhuiyan, Jatiya Press Club (JPC) president Farida Yasmin and General Secretary Shyamal Dutta, DUJ President Sohel Haider Chowdhury and General Secretary Akhter Hossain, former DUJ president Abu Jafor Surya and general secretary Sazzad Alam Topu also spoke at the meeting.
In the meeting, they stood in a solemn silence for a minute to pay respect to the victims who had embraced martyrdom in the deadly grenade attack.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha