Sheikh Arif Bulbon :
With the slogan titled ‘to survive with the industry, to save the industry’ a grand rally of television professionals was held from 11:00am to 5:00pm on Wednesday at the Central Shaheed Minar in the city.
This rally was held for the implantation of five-point demands. These are: To stop airing foreign serials and programmes with Bengali dubbing in country’s private satellite channels, programmes must be controlled with relevant authority of the channels without any interference by any client or agency in case of selling or airing any TV programme, the minimum and acceptable rate of AIT to be re-fixed in every aspect of television industry, frequent acting of foreign actors and workers must be stopped in local channels in case of special occasion if there is needed there must have taken government’s permission before working and to be enlisted in relevant orgnaisation and to stop local TV commercials in foreign channels through the down link channels.
The rally began to wreath flowers on the podium of Central Shaheed Minar.
Syed Hasan Imam, ATM Shamsuzzaman, Abul Hayat, Mamunur Rashid, Gazi Rakayet, Salauddin Lavlu, among others, were present on the occasion.
Later in voices of the attended actors the National Anthem was rendered.
Convener of Federation of Television Professionals Organisation (FTPO) Mamunur Rashid gave welcome speech. In his speech Mamunur Rashid said, “Earlier we did not have unity among us. But today’s presence proved that we can be untied. Nobody can divide us. Everybody should come into common platform with our demands.”
Attending all the TV professionals gathered the Shaheed Minar and urged the government to implement their demands.
Gazi Rakayet presented the theme paper. He said, “We pay tribute to the language martyrs because for their sacrifice we could save our mother language. Today we have proved that we can become united. In a word, we can say that from now the TV channels will run according to what the FTPO wants. Our movement is not against the government or agency. We want to step forward with a specific rules and regulations. We say to the TV channels that you should not only do business but also to love this industry.”
Professionals of 13 organisations gathered in the rally. During break of speech Chanchal Chowdhury, Milon, Chitralekha Guha, Apurba, Fazlur Rahman Babu, Mosharraf Karim and Shamima Tusty rendered songs and performed dnaces in the rally.
