Grassroots politicians at a convention on Saturday called for keeping space for dialogue in politics to avoid conflict for unity and solidarity among all political parties.
The Hunger Project Bangladesh in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development, Democracy International and International Foundation for Electoral Systems organised the 鈥楶eace Ambassadors鈥� National Convention 2024鈥� in the capital鈥檚 Krishibid Institution Bangladesh auditorium.
In a Dhaka Declaration, peace ambassadors from across the country call for building unity avoiding conflict in all stages of political practices.
Several hundred local leaders of different political parties who are called peace ambassadors attended the convention and shared their experiences on how they set peace avoiding conflict in tense situations.
State minister for information and broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat said that politicians in the country were still very tolerant despite having political competition and different views.
Indicating the presidential election in the USA, he said that the candidates there did not shake hands and hug each other before debate.
The candidates attacking each other using slang while the country came here with advice on what to do and what not to do.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party vice-chairman Abdul Awal Mintoo said that the unnatural deaths of two great leaders of the country divided the society into two sharp groups after the independence.
To achieve unity in the society both of the parties must come up with the sacrificial mentality, he added.
聽Mintoo also said that if power was centralised in the hands of one person, it would widen the disparity what is happening actually.
He also stressed the importance of dialogue to minimise conflicts in this regard.
The former president of the Communist Party of Bangladesh, Mujahidul Islam Selim, said that the conflict between two large political parties was for a share in looting the country.
Without changing the socio-political situation the culture of conflict would never solve, he added.
The Hunger Project country director in Bangladesh and global vice-president, Badiul Alam Majumdar, said that the nation by hating each other could not go far.
There might be difference in opinion, but peaceful coexistence is a must for sustainability of the society, he added.