Jatiya Party secretary general Mujibul Haque Chunnu on Sunday said that a process of depoliticisation was underway in Bangladesh.
鈥業t is apparent that a kind of process of depoliticisation is under way in the country. A group is using a section of students to create an unstable situation. It is not accepted,鈥� Chunnu said in a press statement.
The statement was issued hours after holding a meeting with the party鈥檚 additional secretaries general at the party chairman鈥檚 office in the capital鈥檚 Banani area.
Referring to the military-backed interim government鈥檚 attempt to minus the Bangladesh Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 2007, Chunnu said that the attempt of minus two failed in the past and the ongoing attempt would also be a failed one.
Chunnu drew the interim government鈥檚 attention for taking immediate steps to contain the prices of essential commodities and improve the law and order situation. 聽聽
Chunnu also slammed torching and vandalising the party鈥檚 central office in Dhaka and the office in Khulna city and demanded to bring the perpetrators to book.
At a press conference at the Khulna Press Club, Khulna city and district leaders of the party said that the arson attack and vandalism at their district and city offices were pre-planned. Tension began when a group of people under the banner of 鈥楢nti-Fascist Students, Workers, and Masses鈥� vandalised the JP central office in Dhaka and set fire to it on allegations of attacking their processions by JP activists Thursday evening.
The JP, however, denied the allegation.
Student organisers announced to hold a programme at the place of JP鈥檚 pre-announced programme at the party central office premises in Dhaka, forcing Dhaka Metropolitan Police to slap a ban on any kind of public gatherings in the area for Saturday.
On Friday night, JP cancelled its pre-scheduled programme.
On October 26, JP staged demonstrations in Rangpur protesting against the visit of Student Movement Against Discrimination central coordinator Sarjis Alam.
The tension between the Jatiya Party and the 鈥楢nti-Fascist Students, Workers, and Masses鈥� increased following the programme.
JP leaders who attended Sunday鈥檚 meeting with the party secretary general Chunnu in the chair said that the party was going to announce its postponed protest programme in Dhaka soon.
Emerging from the meeting, JP presidium member Jahirul Islam Jahir said that their party was planning to hold the postponed programme in Dhaka soon to protest against filing murder cases against party chairman Ghulam Muhammad Quader and secretary general Mujibul Haque Chunnu.
Additional secretaries general Rezaul Islam聽 Bhuiyan, Liaquat Hossain Khoka, Mir Abdus Sobur, among others, attended the meeting.
Jatiya Party is blamed to be a close ally of the ousted Awami League government, reportedly for helping the fascist regime to cling to power through controversial general elections in 2014, 2018 and 2024.