Rafiqul Islam, Kushtia Correspondent: Despite the rain, the central leaders of the National Citizens Party (NCP) held a visit to Abrar Fahad`s grave, a march and an exchange of views in Kushtia.

On Tuesday (July 8), they reached the cemetery of Raydanga village in Ward No. 3 of Kaya Union in Kumarkhali Upazila of Kushtia at around 1 pm. Later, they visited Abrar Fahad`s grave at around 1 pm. Then they spoke to Abrar Fahad`s father Barkat Ullah and mother Rokeya Khatun, including locals. After that, the NCP leaders and activists left for Kushtia to join the march. After the march on NS Road in Kushtia city, they left for the neighboring Meherpur district.

Present at the event were National Citizens Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam, Senior Joint Convener Samantha Sharmin, Joint Convener Dr. Atiq Mujahid, Member Secretary Akhtar Hossain, Senior Joint Member Secretary Dr. Tasnim Zara, Northern Region Chief Organizer Sarjis Alam, Saifullah Haider, Asadullah Al Ghalib, Abu Sayeed Lyon, Southern Region Chief Organizer Hasnat Abdullah, Dr. Mahmuda Alam Mitu, Mohammad Ataullah, Chief Coordinator Nasiruddin Patwari and Central Member Fihadur Rahman Dibs, as well as other central leaders and activists of NCP`s constituent organizations Yubo Shakti and Sramik Wing and leaders at various levels of Kushtia district.

National Citizens Party (SCP) Convener Nahid Islam has called on the countrymen to build the Bangladesh that Abu Sayeed-Mughra wanted to see from Abrar Fahad.

He said, the National Citizen Party is doing politics on the pro-Bangladesh path shown by Abrar Fahad, the path of anti-Indian hegemony, the path of anti-aggression. The July Uprising took place along that path. From Abrar to Abu Sayeed, we hold those martyrs and oppressed people who have been subjected to disappearances, murders and torture in the anti-fascist movement in the last 16 years. In the July march to build the country, we hold the aspirations of those martyrs.’

Nahid Islam further said that after the quota reform and safe road movement in 2018, the killing of Abrar was a big event in national politics in 2019. The movement to protest the death of Abrar Fahad turned the tide of Bangladeshi politics. The fight against Indian hegemony started again through the protest against the death of Abrar Fahad. The slogan ‘Delhi, not Dhaka’ was raised.

Nahid Islam said these things while exchanging views with journalists after visiting the grave of Abrar Fahad, who was brutally tortured by the Chhatra League over a Facebook status on the Assam Agreement between Bangladesh and India and water aggression.

Leaders and activists of the Jatiya Nagorik Party (NCP) are holding a nationwide `July Padayatra` program demanding the establishment of people`s rights, structural reforms of the state and a new constitution. As part of this program, they held a road meeting and march in Kushtia on Tuesday. Earlier, the top leaders of the party reached Kushtia city at 12:55 am on Monday (July 7).