Rumeen rues lack of reform despite July Uprising

Addressing a discussion titled Politics After the Mass Uprising Crisis, Possibilities and the Way Forward, organized by the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) at the National Press Club on Saturday, she said the aspirations that had motivated people to join the uprising had not been fulfilled.

The discussion was attended by Independent MP Rumeen Farhana, President of Rastro Sanskar Andolon Hasnat Kaiyum, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) Senior Vice-President Tania Rob, General Secretary Shahid Uddin Mahmud, political analyst Helaluzzaman Ahmed, JSD Vice-President Nurul Akhtar and Siraj Mia, among others. Tania Rob chaired the event, while Shahid Uddin Mahmud presented the keynote paper. Participants discussed the challenges, prospects and the way forward for post-uprising politics and state reforms in Bangladesh. 

Rumeen Farhana also said people had risked their lives in the hope of bringing meaningful change but later realized that the movement had become the property of a few individuals. She alleged that it had led to a new rise of extremism in Bangladesh and had turned into a project through which some people had gone from having nothing to becoming owners of hundreds of crores of taka.