Politicians and teachers hold a meeting in Dhaka on Monday expressing their concerns over the attack on students by police and ruling party activists. — New Age photo

Politicians and professionals on Monday called for mending the state and bringing good changes in the country taking lessons from ongoing students’ movement to build Bangladesh free from ‘hooligans.’

They expressed solidarity with the current movement of students for safe roads and protested at attack by ‘police’ and the ‘ruling party goons’.

The politicians and professionals came up with the stances addressing a gathering to protest at repression on students and express solidarity at National Press Club organised by Udbigna Nagorik Samaj (Worried Citizen Society).

Bikalpadhara Bangladesh president, AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury, also former president of the country, said, ‘good change’ should be brought to the country where there would exist balance of politics to check one’s monopoly of power.

Terming the student’s movement justified, he said every step of the government was ‘injustice.’

Badruddoza, also chairman of newly floated political alliance Juktafront, said when injustice became law then resistance became duty.

He came down hard on the government for unleashing joint attack of ‘police’ and ‘ruling party goons’ on the students movement.

Ganaforum president Kamal Hossain said they want hooliganism-free Bangladesh.

He said there is no democracy in the country but remain ‘hooliganism’ (Gundatantra).

‘It is our national duty to free the country from the hands of them (hooligans)’, said politician Kamal.

Kamal asked IGP for issuing written order to police to get rid of hooligans.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said national unity was necessary to get rid of the present ‘horrible situation’ of ‘autocratic’ and ‘fascist’ government.

He said the students during their movement for safe roads created scope for building the national unity.

‘Now it is the responsibility of us, political parties whether we will carry out our duty through our united efforts for the necessity of the nation responding to that call (of students)’, Fakhrul said.

Referring to a placard of the current students movement that written repairing work of the state was going on expressing regret for temporary inconvenience, the secretary general said the students pointed out us clearly that mending of the state is necessary.

Ganashashthya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury presiding the protest and solidarity gathering urged all to raise voice and make a start for a safe road.

He wanted to know whether five buses donated by the prime minister to Shahid Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College have fitness and road taxes of vehicles of army were given.

Nagorik Oikya convenor Mahmudur Rahman said it was the time to rebuild the state.

Dhaka University teacher, Asif Nazrul who conducted the programme said Chhatra League and Juba League activists responding to the prime minister’s recent comment that third party entered the student movement.

Kalyan party chairman Syed Muhammad Ibrahim, former Dhaka University Central Student’s Union vice-president Sultan Mohammad Mansur, JSD (Rob) general secretary Abdul Malek Ratan, former Bangladesh Bank governor Salehuddin Ahmed, Mostafa Amin of Jatiya Oikya Prokria and Faizul Hakim of Jatiya Mukti Council, among others, addressed the gathering.