The July uprising was a historical bloc and after the student-led mass uprising, its leadership was divided due to class struggle, said academics and journalists on Friday.
They also said that after the uprising, Bangladesh needed a new philosophy about capital, political ideology and education for a new beginning.
They made the remarks at a discussion titled 鈥楢hmed Sofa Memorial Lecture 2025鈥� organised by the Ahmed Sofa Rashtrashobha and Centre for Asian Arts and Cultures at Poet Sufia Kamal Auditorium of Bangladesh National Museum at Shahbagh in the capital Dhaka.
Author Faruk Wasif, also the director general of the Press Institute Bangladesh, presented an article titled 鈥楢hmed Sofar 鈥淩ashtro Basona鈥� Ebong July Gana Abhyutthaner Parichay鈥� at the event which was moderated by CAAC president Mohammad Zahirul Islam.
Writer Salimullah Khan and former Japan-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Abdul Haque also spoke at the event to mark the 82nd anniversary of the birth of the late prominent Bangladeshi poet, novelist, essayist and thinker Ahmed Sofa.
Faruk Wasif said that the anti-discrimination movement began mostly in 2018 and after the mass uprising, politics could not be based on hatred.
鈥業n Bangladesh, a lot of political parties run with the theme of anti-India, anti-Pakistan and anti-China, but no political party carries the interests of people of all classes,鈥� he said, adding that neo-middle class had always searched their political parties since the British colonial era but most of the political parties served rich-people interests that created uprisings.
鈥楿nknown crowd always reshaped the politics beyond the political parties and leadership. On the other hand, political parties and states suppress them. We fought against fascism many times, but did not plan to reform the state,鈥� Faruk Wasif said, adding that after the July uprising, the leadership of the uprising became weak because of the capitalist political system.
Abdul Haque said that world leaders appreciated the uprising because they knew how much money trafficked from this country during the ousted regime, adding 鈥楢fter the mass uprising, we need new philosophies about capital and political ideology for a new beginning.鈥�
Salimullah Khan said that Ahmed Sofa wrote almost all his novels about Bangladesh.
Sofa is one of the ethical guardians of Bangladesh, he said.聽
