Protesters in Bangladesh storm the residence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina -- image via video screenshot
Statements from the Communist Party of Bangladesh, Communist Party of India and Communist Party of India (Marxist) about the situation in Bangladesh where, after weeks of protests and severe police repression leading to hundreds of deaths, on August 5, Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stepped down and fled the country.
To Consolidate the victory of the people, the safety of the people of the country must be ensured - CPB
Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) President Md Shah Alam and General Secretary Ruhin Hossain Prince in a statement today 5 August 2024 referred to the resignation of the Sheikh Hasina led government today as the downfall of dictatorship and the victory of the people in the united struggle of the students along with all the democratic, secular, left political forces agitating. They urged for the formation of an interim government should be based on discussions and opinions from all agitating Democratic patriotic forces. In the statement, the leaders said that the countrymen should be aware so that this victory of the people does not flow to different tracks. And the movement must continue until full democratic rights are achieved. The statement urged everyone to play a role in maintaining peace, rule of law and discipline across the country, protecting the lives and property of people including rights of religious and ethnic minorities. In the statement, the leaders and activists have been called upon to stand by the people to protect the lives and property of the people.
Regards, Adv. Hasan Tarique Chowdhury Head of the International Department and Member of the Central Committee.
CPI on the Developments in Bangladesh
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (August 6, 2024) the following statement:
The Communist Party of India (CPI) expresses its deep concern on the grave situation in Bangladesh following the biggest mass protest resulting the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and subsequently leaving Bangladesh.
Last one month Bangladesh had witnessed students protest against the reservation system in job and other areas and demanding withdrawal of this system. The movement which started in peaceful way transformed it to a violent one. The way Hasina government delt against this movement that resulted more than three hundred dead and more than one thousand five hundred people wounded. More students and all sections of the people join this movement day by day.
Even after the Supreme Court reduces the Quota to 5% only on July 21, the students protest continues with demands of legal actions against Law-and-order authorities for mass killings. The magnitude of mass protest was seen throughout Bangladesh it was inevitable that autocratic rule of Sheikh Hasina would fall.
The CPI while taking note of the spontaneous mass protest against Hasina government, recognizes the fact that the fundamentalist and reactionary forces had hijacked the popular movement and exposed their ugly face by destroying the statue of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman under whose leadership Bangladesh was liberated thus denying the inclusive legacy of Bangladesh liberation movement.
The CPI condemns such acts and believes that the Left, democratic and patriotic forces in Bangladesh will do their best to prevent such activities of the fundamentalist and reactionary forces.
Now Bangladesh is under the hands of Military and its head has declared that country will run by an interim government. Party hopes that it should be an inclusive interim government and will bring back the normal law and order situation. guarantee the life and property of all minority communities, continue to carry forward good neighbourly relations with India and not to allow its land for anti-Indian terrorist organisations as in the past.
The CPI calls upon the Government of India to take appropriate steps to protect Indian citizens in Bangladesh, so that peace and stability continue in Border areas.
Communist Party of India (Marxist):
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government in Bangladesh have been ousted in a mass revolt led by students against the authoritarian and corrupt regime. The Polit Bureau expresses its deep sorrow at the loss of more than 300 lives due to brutal repression against the mass protests.
The democratic and secular forces have to work unitedly to restore peace and stability. This is necessary to thwart the designs of the rightwing and fundamentalist forces who will seek to benefit with the support of external forces.
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