Tarique urges BNP activists to prioritise reform, not revenge
December 19, 2024 00:00:00
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has urged his party leaders and workers to respond to their oppressors by making the party's 31-point proposal a success, rather than resorting to reprisal and revenge, reports UNB.
"If you want to respond to the injustice, oppression, and suppression that have been done to you, you should not imitate what they (Awami League) have done. If we do so, there will be no difference between them and us. If they are wrong, should we become wrong like them? To give a response effectively, we must make our 31-point proposal a success," he said while virtually addressing three of BNP's workshops, titled '31-Point State Structure Reform Proposal and Public Engagement," was organised by the BNP Training Affairs Committee in Narayanganj, and Gazipur cities and Tangail district on Wednesday.
Tarique recalled that over the past 17 years, many BNP leaders and workers were killed, made disappeared, repressed in various ways, arrested and imprisoned.
He claimed that more than 500 BNP leaders and workers were killed during the July-August mass uprising.