Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh general secretary Saiful Huq on Wednesday called on the interim government to announce its list of priorities to the people and political parties.
Saiful said that the interim government had the mandate to ensure trial and necessary reforms as well as to hold general elections.
The government, however, is involved in different activities going beyond its priorities, he added.
He made the remarks at his recently published book titled Fascibad, Ganoabhyuthan, Biplab O Sangbidhan Bitarka launch programme held at the National Press Club.聽
Referring to issues of providing a humanitarian channel to the conflict-ridden Rakhine State and handing over the Chittagong Port to foreign operators, Saiful said that the government must get its priorities right and should not involve in any activities without political consensus because those could delay the elections.
A beneficiary group wants to delay the national election and that the group is now pressing for local government elections, said Saiful.
Addressing the programme, Nagarik Oikya president Mahmudur Rahman Manna said that the main task of the interim government was to organise the national election.
He said that the government had failed to run the country and not a single reform was done since it was formed after August 5, 2024.
Former Dhaka University professor Mahbub Ullah discussed some contents of the book and said that the ousted Awami League spread ultra-nationalism, portrayed its own leader with a larger than life personality and created a narrative of pro-independence to establish fascism in the country.
Presiding over the event, Kaler Dabi Prokashona publisher Bahnishikha Jamali said that the writer did not only address the anti-fascist movement during the Awami League government but also addressed the political situation and challenges after the uprising in his 11 articles.
She said that the writer in the book showed how a few representatives of liberal ideology came to power overthrowing a corrupt fascist section of the same ruling class.
Chittagong University associate professor Moshreka Aditi Huq mentioned the book as a historical document on the anti-fascist movement.
Jatiya Kabita Parishad president Mohon Raihan, journalist Mostafa Kamal Majumder and writer Anindya Arif, among others, also spoke at the book launch.
