Asif Mahmood Sajib Bhuiyan, adviser to the Ministry of Youth and Sports and Labor and Employment, said, ‘As an independent and sovereign state, we will talk to India eye to eye, not bow down. We will speak with our heads raised.’
He said these things while being present as the chief guest at the exchange meeting with the aim of reforming Bangladesh free from corruption, extortion and terrorism by holding the spirit of the martyrs of the July coup in organizing the anti-discrimination student movement at Comilla Town Hall ground on Tuesday afternoon.
Anti-discrimination student movement coordinator Abdul Quader, Abu Bakr Majumder, Sumaiya Akhtar, Hamza Mahbub, Zia Uddin Ayan, Ali Ahmed Araf, Abu Raihan, Tashnia Naureen, Mohidul Islam Rintu, Faria Rahman, Khaled Hasan and Naeem Abedin and others were present in the exchange meeting.
Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan said, ‘India has been talking to one party for so long. But that won’t happen anymore. The state will implement the decisions taken by the people of this country in terms of foreign policy. They have to withdraw from the practice they have been doing for so long by shooting people in the chest and leaving Bangladesh behind.’
Asif Mahmud said, ‘People of Bangladesh do not want much. They want to express themselves freely. Does not want luxury. They want to live happily and peacefully with the basic rights that they have. But as a result of a long journey of fascism, we have been crushed to such an extent that even a post on Facebook would have to be thought of 10 times. Many people had to go to jail for singing. I had to go to jail for writing poetry. Today we are at least so relieved. Now we can speak freely. No one is bothering us today. RAB, Police, DB are not knocking on our door. Not only for 16 years, but for the last 53 years, this country has only accumulated garbage. We are trying to resolve them very quickly.’
The adviser said, ‘You cannot show any flood in the last 53 years where relief theft did not occur. But this time, not a single such incident happened. Not a single incident of stealing rice, stealing relief, or hiding it in bed has happened.’
He also said, ‘You have seen that in many government offices, including BRTA, they used to go around people, make them suffer, and collect bribes from them. Is anyone else showing that courage? So that no one else dares to do so in the future, we are talking about that reform. We 21 who sit in the government will not decide how that structural reform will be done, you will decide that. The people of this country will decide that.’
He said, ‘The downfall of the Awami League government is the final result of their long-term extortion, occupation and injustice on people. If you also walk on the same path, your fate will be the same as that Awami League fascist government.’