Kazi Md. Mamunur Rashid, Secretary General of the Jatiyo Party, has stated that in the aftermath of August 5, 2024, the country witnessed the emergence of a reign of mob violence, killings, looting, extortion, and the commercialization of legal cases. Certain factions of miscreants, exploiting political affiliations, engaged in these reprehensible activities, often seizing businesses and even private homes through orchestrated mob attacks.

In a statement issued to the media today, Saturday, the Secretary General observed that when the negligence of the government and law enforcement agencies had driven the citizenry to the brink of despair, the patriotic armed forces intervened directly, restoring a measure of normalcy nationwide. Nevertheless, he noted, some groups of miscreants continue their misconduct under political cover, emboldened by the government’s continued indifference.

Mr. Mamun further stated that on Friday attempts were made to loot and set fire to the Jatiyo Party’s central office through mob incitement. These same elements had previously carried out two similar attacks on the Party’s office, involving arson and plunder, since August 5. Despite repeated warnings from the patriotic army and police not to instigate mob violence, the perpetrators ultimately attempted to torch the Party headquarters and even launched assaults on members of the armed forces and police. In order to safeguard the Jatiyo Party’s headquarters and protect the lives and property of ordinary citizens, the patriotic army and police were compelled to take decisive action.

The Secretary General remarked that, following the dispersal of the mobs and looters by the patriotic army and police, certain opportunistic quarters began shedding crocodile tears on social media in defense of the attackers. Aligned with them, even an adviser to the current interim government issued a Facebook post sympathetic to the perpetrators. Such behavior, he asserted, demonstrates that those intent on protecting mobsters are themselves linked to the present government. He further revealed that an anti-national clique is engaged in deep conspiracies against patriotic officers of the armed forces and the military intelligence agency (DGFI), including attempts to file fabricated cases against some officers in order to disgrace and harass them publicly. The Jatiyo Party strongly condemns such malicious intrigues.

Mr. Mamun emphatically declared that mob violence, arson, and looting will not succeed in halting the Jatiyo Party’s onward march. He asserted that the interim government has utterly failed to fulfill the expectations of the people, who no longer wish to see them in power. In the interest of restoring law and order and ensuring a free, fair, neutral, and participatory election, he called upon Dr. Muhammad Yunus to immediately cede authority to a non-partisan caretaker government to rescue the nation from its present suffocating predicament. Failure to do so, he warned, could bring dire consequences for the country and the nation, placing national sovereignty itself at grave risk.

In conclusion, he issued a humble appeal to the Chief of Army Staff, General Waker-Uz-Zaman, to honor the trust the nation placed in him last year and, should circumstances so require, to take the sternest measures necessary in defense of the country and its people.

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