Amar Desh editor and writer Mahmudur Rahman on Sunday (October 6) placed a seven-point demand, including banning the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), student wing of Awami League, within the next seven days.
"Bangladesh Chhatra League should be banned as a terrorist organisation within the next seven days. If no action is taken within this deadline, strong street movement will be launched," he said while speaking at an opinion-sharing meeting with journalists at Jatiya Press Club in the capital.
"[Bangladesh] Chhatra League was responsible for all the terrorist activities happened in the country over the last 16 years. Hundreds of students were killed across the country during the student and people's revolution. Abu Sayeed and Mugdha were killed. Police and BCL cadres were involved in the killings," he said.
He also demanded taking immediate steps to send those who were injured in the Anti-Discrimination Student movement abroad for better treatment.
For ensuring better treatment of the injured persons abroad, he demanded formation of a committee comprising advisers of the ministries of health, finance, industry and public works, and political secretary to the Chief Adviser of the interim government.
Leaders of various professional organisations including Jatiya Press Club (JPC), Amar Desh Paribar, BFUJ, DUJ, Press Club Employees' Union and others welcomed Mahmudur Rahman with flowers.
Mahmudur Rahman demanded cancellation of the nomination of fascist Hasina's daughter Saima Wazed Putul for the post of regional director for World Health Organization South-East Asia Region, because the nomination was given through forgery.
He also demanded naming the Jamuna Bridge after Shaheed Abu Sayeed, bringing before the nation the agreements signed with India since 2009 and renaming Bangabandhu Avenue after Shaheed Abrar Avenue.
There will be no institution after the name of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, he said.
He demanded formation a judicial inquiry commission led by an Appelate Division judge for proper investigation into the deaths of Brigadier General Rahim and BNP leader Nasir Uddin Pintu who died in prison.
He urged the interim government to bring the cohorts of the ousted fascist government to book and said no compromise will be made with India.
Mahmudur Rahman said the Daily Amar Desh will be published again. If anyone tries to hatch conspiracy against the Daily Amar Desh, the family of the Amar Desh will wage movement against them.
He said ousted Sheikh Hasina exploited the country for 16 years by making radicalism and Islamic militancy as an issue. Awami government politicised the judiciary, he added.
Mahmudur Rahman said that after the revolution of the students and the people, I did not think that the talk against the monster Hasina would decrease so quickly.
JPC President Poet Hasan Hafiz, former President Kamal Uddin Sabuj, former General Secretary Syed Abdal Ahmed, BFUJ former President M. Abdullah, former Secretary General MA Aziz, JPC former General Secretary Elias Khan, DRU former President Mursalin Nomani, DUJ President Md Shahidul Islam, General Secretary Khurshid Alam, DUJ former General Secretary Sarder Farid Ahmad, acting secretary general of BFUJ Basir Jamal and Hassan Ahamed Chowdhury Kiron, spoke at the discussion, among others.
