New party launched

Bangladesh Minority Janata Party (BMJP) comprising 101 central members has started its journey on September 22 with the announcement at the National Press Club.  The party will uphold the civil rights of minority communities in Bangladesh together with all state privileges those are due to the citizen.

Minorities in any state remain a vulnerable component of a society.  These communities are never considered as one of the integral segments of a state by the majority community.  In advanced countries, minorities are relatively better than in developing countries and enjoying all rights equally with the majority people.

In the South Asian scenario, the majority population always tries to impose its values, culture, religion, language, etc., on the minorities. Bangladesh

is also not exception to this. Instead of trying to improve their pathetic conditions, their issues are merely politicized and nothing substantive is being done for the improvement of their socioeconomic status. It is an obvious fact when one sees the continuous decrease of Hindu population in Bangladesh. It is necessary to go into the root causes of why the majority and minority people have antagonistic approach.

In the present state of Bangladesh, BMJP newly elected President Engineer Shyamol Kumar Roy and General Secretary Sukriti Kumar Mondal have demanded many constitutional amendments and civic rights that are considered as prerequisites for minority communities to live in Bangladesh with communal harmony and coexistence.

According to BMJP, minority communities in Bangladesh had dreamed that they would get congenial atmosphere in an independent Bangladesh, but after 46 years of independence, they find no hopes and aspirations for their inviolate existence in Bangladesh for sectarian and confrontational politics.

The organization leaders have also said with deep concern that the number of minorities remained 22% during the War of Liberation in 1971, but it is awfully decreasing in Bangladesh due to irresponsible political steps initiated by the successive governments.

Under these circumstances, the new party urged the government to implement its demands to bring back communal harmony as well as friendly trend of coexistence in society where the minority communities feel comfortable to lead their life without any hesitation in the future.

It also calls on the government to reintroduce the Constitution of 1971, proportionate representation in state level, full implementation of Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Agreement, basic development of backward communities and all other reforms to defend the rights of minority communities.