UNB, Dhaka :A prominent minority platform’s leader has alleged that neither the ruling party or ruling alliance leaders stood by the family members of minority people who were killed recently excluding Pabna.The leaders said this at a joint meeting of 14-party alliance with Awami League associate bodies, minority groups and freedom-fighters platforms on Sunday. Partners of the Awami League-led governing alliance underscored the need for forging national unity to face militancy in the country.”We have to build national unity against the secret killers. It will be impossible to face them without forging national unity,” Shirin Akhter, general secretary of Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu’s Jatiya Samajtantric Dal, said. Addressing the meeting, Workers Party general secretary Fazle Hossain Badsha said the people of the country are realizing that militancy must be resisted.”Our activists have to employ themselves to organize the people in this regard. If we can unite the people, the secretkillers wouldn’t get a place in the society,” he added. Hindu-Bouddha-Christian Oikya Parishad general secretary Rana Dasgupta said “several times political parties gave us various assurance but these all are lip-service.” “We urge all to take up proper political programmes. Otherwise, we don’t know how Bangladesh will overcome the present situation only through lip-service,” he added.He criticized Awami League and its alliance leaders for not standing with the family members of minority people who were killed recently, except in Pabna. Rana Dasgupta observed that it is possible to wage mass movement against secret killers with taking all political parties in the side.Soon after his speech, the 14-party alliance coordinator and Health Minister Mohammad Nasim reacted saying “Why didn’t you talk against the killers-BNP-Jamaat? Why you need all parties? Here is the problem of the Oikya Parishad.” The Minister sought public support to resist militancy and secret killers in the country saying “Help us like in the past. We will defeat the evil force taking the people of the country on our side.”
