Professor Emajuddin Ahmed, former vice-chancellor of Dhaka University, on Saturday equated jailing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia with confinement of democracy. ‘The country’s democracy is now confined in prison,’ he said.
Emajuddin said that the government had thought BNP would be crushed if its chairperson was sent to jail, but it ‘has emerged as the most united political party in the country’.
He made the remarks while addressing a discussion meeting, arranged by pro-BNP social platform Public Voice: Working for Bangladesh, in a Sylhet hotel in the evening.
Terming the BNP founder Ziaur Rahman a pioneer of Bangladesh’s development, the senior academician said that former president Zia had not taken the country’s charge willingly, rather the responsibility was forced upon him.
‘It is hard to say which course the nation would have taken, had Zia not accepted the responsibility of running the country at that time,’ he commented.
Public Voice: Working for Bangladesh president Mifta Siddiquee chaired the meeting, also addressed by Sylhet mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury, journalist union leaders Abdul Hai Shikder and Zahangir Alam Pradhan and Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha president Mamun Ahmed.
- Courtesy - New Age/ Mar 25, 2018
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