Journalist orgs condemn demand for removal of Bangabandhu's sculpture

Leaders of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) and Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) have strongly condemned the illogical demand for removal of sculptures of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports BSS.

In a joint statement, BFUJ president Mollah Jalal and its secretary general Shaban Mahmud, and DUJ president Quddus Afrad and general secretary Sajjad Alam Khan said a quarter of anti-liberation and fundamental forces continues ill-effort demanding the removal of Bangabandhu's sculptures.

They said the demand of removal of the Bangabandhu's sculptures is undoubtedly a deep conspiracy and a contempt of the country's constitution.

Recently the journalist leaders said a vested quarter is trying to instigate religious divide in the country centring the constructions of a sculpture of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The group of conspirators is trying to spread one kind of confusion among people by mixing the issue of the sculpture with religious sentiments, the statement read.

"Our statement is very clear to this end. Sculpture and statue are not the same. As per the existing laws of Bangladesh, every citizen is obliged to show respect to Father of the Nation and its exception is a crime. No debate about Bangabandhu is desirable to any citizen of the country," it said.

Asking the quarter not to fish in troubled water by instigating religious sentiments, the journalist leaders said if this conspiracy is not stopped, the journalist community will announce harsher programmes across country to this end.