Dr. Pinaki Bhattacharya, a prominent online activist and one of the 2024 student-mass movement of Sipahsala, referred to the Awami League and India as “five sicker goats” and said that there will be no peace in Bangladesh unless the fascist Awami League and India are confronted.” If they cannot be eliminated forever, the revolution will fail.
He said, “There is a legend that five hundred goats eat a garden of lakhs of rupees. People of Bangladesh will have to give blood again and again if they do not recognize this five-sika goat.
He said these things in the speech of the chief guest at a seminar entitled “Expectations of Bangladesh and Diaspora after the People’s Uprising” at an elite hotel in Paris, the capital of France, on Saturday (October 12).
In the seminar organized by Human Rights Forward, under the chairmanship of the president of the organization Mohammad Faisal Ahmed and moderated by Bangla Telegram editor Shah Suhail Ahmed, leaders of various Bangladeshi organizations and communities living in France participated in the discussion.
Pinaki Bhattacharya said that it is not necessary to repeatedly make different demands on behalf of expatriate Bangladeshis. But to be realistic, the diaspora would say and the government would accept it. We have to create such a situation. He said that the government flatters those who provide money to the administration of the state including World Bank, IMF.
Referring to expatriates as one of the sources of economic supply of the state, he said, the government will be forced to evaluate expatriates. Calling on expatriates to organize, he said that expatriates from all over the world will give five billion dollars to the state. If this happens, the expatriates will come directly to the work of building the state. Expatriates are one of the driving forces of Bangladesh’s economy. So, expatriates will claim their rights.
Referring to himself as the voice of the people of Bangladesh, he said, being a part of the government, he does not want to limit himself, rather he wants to play a continuous role in favor of truth and justice for the needs of the country and people, and seeks the prayers and cooperation of all. At the same time, he called on all expatriate Bangladeshis to take a position in the mainstream politics in the diaspora.
France24 journalist Mohammad Arif Ullah presented the main article in the seminar. He said, ‘I have read the history of the independence movement of 1971. The nation has been fed a false history. However, 180 million Bangladeshis had the opportunity to witness the fall of fascism directly through the mass revolution of ’24.
4 demands were presented on behalf of expatriates in the seminar. The demands are 1. Ensuring voting rights of expatriates through embassies, 2.Arrangement to obtain national identity card and e-passport quickly from abroad, 3.Arrangement of reserved seats for expatriates in national parliament, and 4.Arrangement to send bodies of immigrants to the country at state expense.
Aakash Helal, a lawyer working in the legal profession in France, highlighted the way to establish an independent judiciary in Bangladesh and said that the democracy of Bangladesh is not free from defects. This democracy helps to create dictatorship.
Visiting BNP leader Nurul Islam Bhuinya Choton said that expatriate Bangladeshis have shown their strength in mass uprising this time. Any future ruling group before becoming a dictatorship will have to think that millions of voices against them not only at home but abroad have nurtured a spirit of protest against them.
General Secretary of BNP Abu Taher demanded to start flights of Bangladesh flagged aircraft.
Sirajul Islam Mia, the former president of France BNP, demanded the interim government to complete specific reforms and organize elections as soon as possible.
Journalist and organizer Mahbub Hossain Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, one of the initiators of the program, called Sheikh Mujibur Rahman the father of fascism and said that one should be aware of the spirit of revolution all the time. The friends of fascism should not be rehabilitated in any way by taking advantage of friends and relatives.
Young lawyer Manwar Patwari called for the immediate abolition of the so-called International Criminal Tribunal and the formation of a criminal tribunal on the model of the Nuremberg Tribunal.
Bangladesh Community in France, one of the largest social platforms of Bangladeshi expatriates in France – BCF president MD Noor said that many martyrs, friends and collaborators of fascism are constantly working to destroy the freedom gained in exchange of blood and sacrifice. Each expatriate has to play the role of a vigilante to counter their conspiracy.
Senior journalist Kamruzzaman called upon the present government to adopt a revolutionary character and said that the people of the country have thrown away the constitution of fascism through mass uprising. So, Dr. Yunus’s government cannot tarnish the spirit of the revolution by undermining the constitution. Urging the government not to give hands on reforms in all matters, he said, you should try fascism, provide adequate compensation and rehabilitation to the martyrs and injured of the movement, remove the friends of Awami fascism from the police-administration and justice department and appoint patriots to arrange fair elections.
Bangladeshi-born French lawyer Aakash Helal called for the complete separation of the judicial department from the executive department, demanding radical reform of the judicial system in Bangladesh.
Human rights activist Mohammad Al Amin called for the formation of Expatriate Investment Board. Bangladesh Nationalist Women’s Dal International Affairs Secretary Shamima Akhtar Ruby, Development Women’s Association President Toufika Shahed, former army officers Mir Jahan, Juned Ahmed, Mohammad Ali Chowdhury, Golam Mohammad Azam, Helal Ahmed, Anukt Kamrul, Syed Irfan, Kavi
discussed the seminar among others.
Badruzzaman and others.
These negotiators said that this is the first time that Bangladeshi immigrants have come to the role of stakeholders directly and indirectly. We all have to play a united and strong role in realizing the four-point demand. He urged all Bangladeshis abroad to be vigilant to make the 5th August revolution meaningful and meaningful.
