Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today urged the country’s people to the July Uprising every year to resist reemergence of autocracy.
“We will observe this (July Uprising) every year so that we do not have to wait 16 years for another uprising again. We will do this every year so that we can destroy it immediately if there is any sign of dictatorship,” he said while inaugurating a month-long programme at his office here, commemorating the July Uprising.
Professor Yunus said: “This is very important. So that we can catch it before it even shows its first leaf. So that we do not have to wait 16 years.”
Mentioning that today is a glorious moment in the history, the Chief Adviser said a year ago, in this July, the movement that the students started gave the people a taste of freedom by creating an unprecedented mass uprising.
The July was an unforgettable call, an awakening of the people in the struggle to restore democracy in the country, he said.
Prof Yunus said the essence of that movement was – “Build a new Bangladesh by eliminating fascism, return the state to the hands of the people”.
“Today, we have taken up the programme to commemorate the July Uprising. This is not just a matter of emotion; it is not a matter of expressing anger.”
The immediate target of the mass uprising was fulfilled but there was a great dream behind it – to reconstruct a new state system and build a new Bangladesh, he said.বিস্তারিত