Jatiya Jukta Front launched

Courtesy: New Age, Dhaka, www.newagebd.com

Staff Correspondent

A new political alliance, Jatiya Jukta Front, was on Tuesday launched at a briefing in a city hotel aiming at qualitative changes in politics.
The Bikalpadhara Bangladesh president, AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury, and the Gana Forum president, Kamal Hossain, launched the alliance.
The two leaders in a joint declaration said the alliance would practise politics for a change and it would work for fair politics.
The alliance will also work to establish a transparent government free of corruption.
The declaration said the country is now faced with all-pervasive corruption, endless violence, extreme poverty, emergence of the forces who acted against the independence of the country in 1971 and lack of honest, brilliant and patriotic people in the government and the parliament.
The alliance will work in the manner of Jukta Front formed in 1954, the declaration said.
‘We are going to introduce a politics of change,’ Kamal Hossain said at the briefing. ‘We will never bow down to corruption.’
The alliance will work against the two big political alliances led by the Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Badruddoza said.
The Bangladesh Kalyan Party led by Muhammad Ibrahim and the Forward Party led by ABM Mostafa Amin extended support for the alliance.
The alliance will form an electoral alliance with like-minded progressive, democratic, political parties to contest the forthcoming December 18 elections, the alliance organiser said.
Badruddoza at a briefing in November 9 announced the launch of the alliance. Kader Siddik, president of the Krishak Sramik Janata League, attended the November 9 briefing. Kader Siddik did not attend Tuesday’s meeting.
The Bikalpadhara secretary general, Abdul Mannan, read out the joint declaration at the briefing and the acting Gana Forum general secretary Subrata Chowdhury conducted the briefing.
Gana Forum presidium member Pankaj Bhattacharya, central Bikalpadhara leader Mahi B Chowdhury and others attended.
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