Staff Reporter :
The land cannot have freedom it is the people who must have freedom. Freedom fighters fought for the cause of people’s freedom and not for any class interest, said Barrister Mainul Hosein in a talk show of Channel-i, telecast on Friday.
But in free Bangladesh the freedom fighters neglected to uphold the cause of the liberation war. Taking advantage of their silence some have been exploiting their name for doing the opposite of the cause of the liberation war. Bangladesh became an easy country to deprive the people of their rights.
Mr Hosein continued that the government though claims to be running the country as freedom fighters and for the cause of freedom fighters, but the people are helpless because their freedom is not secure. If the selfless freedom fighters could come forward and speak collectively in support of the cause of people’s freedom things would have been different. They should expose what is not the way of freedom fighters.
We have been extremely unlucky for not having nation building leaders. The institutions of good governance were given no importance by the leaders from the beginning, Barrister Mainul lamented.
He regretted that democracy was rendered unable to work by making journalists and lawyers party activists of undemocratic politics.
The undemocratic method of politicisation of professionals to serve class interests was not in our pre-liberation politics. Our journalists and lawyers upheld their professional independence fiercely. He felt bewildered as to how this selfish idea of politicisation of professionals to kill democracy entered Bangladesh.
Barrister Mainul found it shameful that the journalists became voice of the party leaders and ceased to be voice of the people. In the same way the lawyers lost interest as a force of the rule of law.
The talk show was hosted by eminent journalist Mr Zillur Rahman and participated by Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, a veteran freedom fighter. He expressed his deep anger and frustration at the mess in public life. He found the people’s helplessness as unacceptable. He was most critical of the harassment of Mr Mahfuz Anam the editor of The Daily Star.
The land cannot have freedom it is the people who must have freedom. Freedom fighters fought for the cause of people’s freedom and not for any class interest, said Barrister Mainul Hosein in a talk show of Channel-i, telecast on Friday.
But in free Bangladesh the freedom fighters neglected to uphold the cause of the liberation war. Taking advantage of their silence some have been exploiting their name for doing the opposite of the cause of the liberation war. Bangladesh became an easy country to deprive the people of their rights.
Mr Hosein continued that the government though claims to be running the country as freedom fighters and for the cause of freedom fighters, but the people are helpless because their freedom is not secure. If the selfless freedom fighters could come forward and speak collectively in support of the cause of people’s freedom things would have been different. They should expose what is not the way of freedom fighters.
We have been extremely unlucky for not having nation building leaders. The institutions of good governance were given no importance by the leaders from the beginning, Barrister Mainul lamented.
He regretted that democracy was rendered unable to work by making journalists and lawyers party activists of undemocratic politics.
The undemocratic method of politicisation of professionals to serve class interests was not in our pre-liberation politics. Our journalists and lawyers upheld their professional independence fiercely. He felt bewildered as to how this selfish idea of politicisation of professionals to kill democracy entered Bangladesh.
Barrister Mainul found it shameful that the journalists became voice of the party leaders and ceased to be voice of the people. In the same way the lawyers lost interest as a force of the rule of law.
The talk show was hosted by eminent journalist Mr Zillur Rahman and participated by Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, a veteran freedom fighter. He expressed his deep anger and frustration at the mess in public life. He found the people’s helplessness as unacceptable. He was most critical of the harassment of Mr Mahfuz Anam the editor of The Daily Star.
