National Citizen Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam has warned the youth-led party would do everything possible to resist politics and policies favouring Indian expansionist approach, as he alleged that Indian hegemony continues to overshadow domestic decision-making.
The key leader of last year’s uprising issued the warning during a procession held in Kushtia on Tuesday, as part of the party’s “July March” programme.
The party would follow the footsteps of Kushtia’s martyr Abrar Fahad in the fight against Indian expansionism, and domestic allegiance to this foreign approach, Nahid said.
Despite the fall of India’s subservient Awami League fascist government last year, Delhi continues to influence many of the country’s internal issues, Nahid alleged.
This support for foreign expansionism amounts to betrayal with the country’s sovereignty and national dignity, he said.
“If any political party or group wants to owe allegiance to Indian expansionism in the way Awami League did, we would stand against this group. The people of Bangladesh will also resist the group,” he warned.
He recalled the martyrdom of BUET student Abrar Fahad at the hands of Awami League-allied goons as a light guiding the fight against Indian expansionism.
“The fight has spread across the country and we are also following it,” he said.
Earlier in the day, Nahid and other NCP leaders offered prayers at the grave of Abrar Fahad in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia, and met Abrar’s parents.
Nahid also recalled the martyrdoms of Kushtia’s another brave son Yamin as well as Rangpur-born Abu Sayed during the July-August anti-fascist uprising last year.
These martyrs gave their lives in the hopes of building a new Bangladesh free from all forms of discrimination, Nahid said, claiming his party is now marching across the country to help realise the dreams.
Abrar Fahad hailed from Kushtia. He was brutally tortured throughout the dead of night by Chhatra League activists at his dormitory in BUET in October 2019. The brilliant student succumbed to his injuries before daybreak.
Abrar’s crime was publishing Facebook posts critical of the Awami League government’s bilateral deals with the Indian government that seriously harmed national interests.
On 1 July, NCP launched its planned “march across the country” to garner support for its state reform demands, which they claim would pre-empt a return to fascism in the country. On Tuesday, the party activists held processions at different upazilas and municipalities of Kushtia. They also met the families of July Martyrs and the July Warriors at Disha Tower in Kushtia town.
LND/NE
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