The Citizens Rights Movement has demanded to bring former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the country for trial in the prisoner exchange agreement with India.
The leaders of the organization made this demand in a written statement at a press conference organized at the Tafazzal Hossain Manik Mia Hall of the National Press Club on Saturday (October 26).
Citizens Rights Movement Secretary General Tushar Rehman read out a written statement at the press conference. At that time, 20-point demands were presented to the interim government. Among the notable demands are the removal of President Md. Shahabuddin, the removal of judges appointed on the basis of party considerations, and the provision of punishment through trial in a special tribunal for all the corrupt CECs and co-criminal ECs of the past.
To ensure exemplary punishment for the autocrat Hasina and her associates and cronies, who have been involved in crimes against humanity including the murder of more than 1,500 students during the mass uprising and the disappearance of opposition political party leaders and activists in the last sixteen years, organized looting of state resources and money laundering abroad, by bringing them back from India in accordance with the prisoner exchange agreement and trying them in the International Crimes Tribunal against Humanity.
The leaders of the formation said that a people-oriented constitution should be formulated by repealing all sections and sub-sections from the constitution that are against public welfare. Including enacting a law that a person cannot be the Prime Minister more than twice, the same person cannot be the head of government and party head for the same term. If a candidate nominated by a party in any constituency of the country is not trusted by the voters, a provision for implementing a 'no vote' should be included in the constitution.
The organization's demands also include that the name of the state should be changed constitutionally from 'People's Republic of Bangladesh' to 'People's Democratic Bangladesh'. The state allowances of fake freedom fighters should be canceled and punished, and arrangements should be made to return the money given, including the removal of those who took government jobs. The pension system of all government employees should be canceled because private employees do not have the opportunity to get pensions. In addition, the unemployed population remains without income and employment throughout their lives.
Citizens' Rights Movement President Major (Retd.) Md. Mofizul Haque Sarkar said, "The anarchy that existed during the period of fascism should not start again. We can see that extortion has started again. There will be a call to the interim government, you should take time to reform the state, and then hold elections. So that the gourd, that is, does not become a pumpkin."