‘Bangabandhu’s revolution reappears in PM’s policy against corruption’

Newly elected chairman of Bangladesh Awami Jubo League Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash. Photo: Focus Bangla
Newly elected chairman of Bangladesh Awami Jubo League Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash. Photo: Focus Bangla

Newly elected chairman of Bangladesh Awami Jubo League Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash on Saturday vowed to set his political odyssey to make younger generations to come out of the stance ‘I hate politics’ and imbue them with Bangabandhu’s ideology to build the nation, reports BSS.

A new entrant in politics, Parash, elder son of Jubo League founding chairman Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni, pledged to materialise the objective of uniting youths around of Bangabandhu’s ideals and spirit of the liberation war.

“Bangabandhu’s sacrifice and his daughter’s love for the country inspire me to be courageous… I’ll stay beside the youths as a Jubo League worker,” he told newsmen after being elected the chairman of Jubo League, the youth wing of ruling Bangladesh Awami League.

“My father Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni founded Jubo League to unite the youths who had belief in the ideals of Bangabandhu and the spirit of the liberation war” Sheikh Fazle Shams said.

“Bangabandhu called for the second revolution in 1974, but it remained unfulfilled because of the 15 August carnage… The zero tolerance policy against corruption that prime minister Sheikh Hasina has declared seems re-appearance of Bangabandhu’s revolution”, Parash said.

The newly elected JL chairman also said that he along with the party workers will work to make the prime minister’s policy successful.

Earlier, Awami League general secretary and also road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader announced the names of new Jubo League leaders at the second session of its congress.

Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash and Mainul Hossain Khan Nikhil were made chairman and general secretary respectively of Bangladesh Awami Jubo League for the next three years.