The interim authorities of Bangladesh led by Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday denied native media reviews which claimed that it has de-recognised the contribution of a whole lot of freedom fighters, together with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Appearing President Syed Nazrul Islam, former Prime Ministers Tajuddin Ahmed and several other leaders of the Mujibnagar authorities following the enactment of Nationwide Freedom Fighters Council (JAMUKA) Ordinance.
The nation’s main media shops reported that the interim authorities has enacted a brand new ordinance that alters the definition of “freedom fighter” (Bir Muktijoddha). The reviews said that the choice has resulted within the revocation of the standing for Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and greater than 400 different notable people from the 1971 Liberation Conflict.
Chief Advisor Yunus then took to social media, stating that the information on revoking the liberty fighters’ standing of the previous leaders of Mujibnagar authorities is “faux”.
“The information revealed in a number of media shops, together with Samakal, Jugantor, Ittefaq and Kalerkanth that the liberty fighter recognition of greater than 100 leaders, together with President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Appearing President Syed Nazrul Islam, Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed and two ministers Md. Mansur Ali and AHM Kamruzzaman, of the Mujibnagar authorities, have been revoked is totally baseless, false and deceptive,” learn a press release issued by Yunus’s workplace.
The Advisor to the Ministry of Liberation Conflict Affairs, Faruk-e-Azam, mentioned that those that have been within the Mujibnagar authorities have been additionally freedom fighters. Moreover, those that fought the Liberation Conflict with arms have been additionally freedom fighters. Nonetheless, the officers and workers of that authorities have been “affiliate freedom fighters”.
“Azam mentioned that in line with the Nationwide Freedom Fighters Council (JAMUKA) Ordinance, diplomats, together with the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra are affiliate freedom fighters. Affiliate doesn’t imply that their honour has been tarnished. He mentioned that the definition of freedom fighter that existed in 1972 has been carried out. It was modified in 2018 and 2022. The honour, standing, and privileges of each freedom fighters and collaborators of the Liberation Conflict will stay the identical,” the assertion added.
Azam said that every one members of the Mujibnagar authorities have been recognised as freedom fighters.
“It’s a historic indisputable fact that the Mujibnagar Authorities led the Liberation Conflict. The Mujibnagar Authorities itself, together with all forces formally recognised by it, might be acknowledged as freedom fighters. Those that have been auxiliary freedom fighters haven’t been disrespected. The salaried workers below the Mujibnagar Authorities have been termed Muktijuddher Shohojogi (affiliate of the Liberation Conflict). There was no discrimination in state allowances or different advantages — everyone seems to be handled equally,” he added.
Experiences prompt that the ordinance, amending the Nationwide Freedom Fighters Council Act and redefining the time period freedom fighters, issued on Tuesday evening talked about that every one Members of the Nationwide Meeting (MNAs) and Members of the Provincial Meeting (MPAs) who have been affiliated with the wartime provisional authorities of Bangladesh (Mujibnagar Authorities) and later considered members of the post-war constituent meeting will to any extent further be thought of as “associates of the Liberation Conflict” slightly than “freedom fighters.”
Moreover, the associates below the brand new class additionally included professionals who stayed overseas and contributed to the Liberation Conflict and the Bangladeshi residents who have been instrumental in shaping international opinions; individuals who labored as officers and workers of the Authorities of Bangladesh (Mujibnagar authorities) shaped throughout the Liberation Conflict, physicians, nurses and different assistants employed by the Mujibnagar authorities.
Additionally, all of the artistes and crew members of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra and all of the Bangladeshi journalists in and outdoors of the nation who have been actively concerned in supporting the Liberation Conflict and Swadhin Bangla Soccer Staff additionally fell below the definition.
The report additional said that the ordinance will have an effect on the standing of ‘Bangabandhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, former Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmad, former performing President Syed Nazrul Islam Tajuddin Ahmad, and greater than 400 others who have been members of the constituent meeting and till now have been recognised as freedom fighters
In response to the brand new ordinance, the Liberation Conflict is outlined as “The battle waged from March 26 to December 16, 1971, to determine equality, human dignity and social justice for the individuals of Bangladesh as an unbiased democratic state towards the invading and occupying Pakistani armed forces and their collaborators — the Razakars, Al-Badr, Al-Shams, Muslim League, Jamaat-e-Islami, Nezame-Islam, and the Peace Committee.”
“Bir Muktijoddha (Freedom fighter) is somebody who, between March 26 and December 16, 1971, both ready for battle and obtained coaching inside villages throughout the nation or crossed the border into India to enrol in varied coaching camps with the goal of collaborating within the Liberation Conflict. These people actively took half within the battle towards the occupying and invading Pakistani armed forces and their native collaborators in the direction of attaining Bangladesh’s independence,” the ordinance said whereas defining the liberty fighters.
The newly-issued ordinance additionally dropped the textual content ‘Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’ and deleted parts of the regulation that have been talked about in his identify.
Yunus had earlier banned the Awami League, the occasion that liberated Bangladesh from Pakistan’s tyrannical rule for democracy, secularism, human rights, and social justice. On the similar time, he additionally welcomed and eliminated the ban on Jamaat-e-Islami, which is demanding ‘Sharia Regulation’ in Bangladesh.