Dhaka-Phulbari march announces Phulbari declaration<\/strong>
\nThe Dhaka-Phulbari long march ended at Phulbari in Dinajpur on Saturday putting out a call for a greater movement involving the people if the Awami League-led government did not meet the nine-point demands the march pushed for.
\nThe national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports, which began\u00a0the march from Dhaka on October 24, put forth the demands as Phulbari declaration at the rally that rounded off the march at Phulbari.
\nThe demands include establishment of people\u2019s full ownership of national wealth, enactment of a law banning mineral resources export, full implementation of the 2006 Phulbari agreement, and cancellation of the proposed coal policy.
\nMore than a thousand leaders and activists of left-leaning political organisations and cultural groups that lend support to the national committee held the long march between Dhaka and Dinajpur travelling a distance of 450 kilometres through Gazipur, Tangail, Sirajganj, Bogra and Gaibandha to create mass awareness.
\nThe organisation\u2019s convener Sheikh Muhammad Shaheedullah at the final rally at Phulbari on Saturday said they would continue with the movement to safeguard natural resources until people\u2019s full ownership of national resources was ensured.
\nHe called on left political parties and the progressive political forces to continue lending their support to the national committee. He added that the organisation would wage a greater movement if the demands were not met.
\n\u2018The Awami League-led government was serving the purposes of imperialist forces and want to give away the natural resources,\u2019 Shaheedullah said at the rally, presided over by the organisation\u2019s local unit convener Syed Saiful Islam Jewel.
\nThe government will bow down to the united movement of the people which was initiated at Phulbai in 2006 when three were killed in police firing into protesters, he said.
\nThe youths are the main force of the movements and they will never bow down, he added.
\nThe Communist Party of Bangladesh president, Manzurul Ahsan Khan, said they must establish the people\u2019s rights to national resources by thwarting the dominance of international oil companies.
\nReferring to the movement of Phulbari, Kansat and Shanir Akhra, Manzurul said the people had organised the movements on their own and they would continue to do so in future.
\nThe Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal general secretary, Khalequzzaman, said they wanted to end the supremacy of the imperialist and looters in the politics of the country. \u2018Alternative political forces must be strengthened for this.\u2019
\nBimal Biswas, the politburo member of the Workers Party of Bangladesh said that the left leaning political parties will strengthen the anti-imperialist movements in the country.
\nHe also warned saying the people will not forgive the government if it works for the plundering of the national resources.
\nAcademician Nur Mohammad, who took part in the long march, said the people would resist any attempt at plundering national wealth.
\nGana Front convener Tipu Biswas, Revolutionary Workers Party general secretary Saiful Huq, Democratic Revolutionary Party general secretary Mushrefa Mishu, Ganatantri Party central leader Zahirul Islam, Samyabadi Dal leader Dhiren Singh, ethnic minority leader Rabindra Nath Soren, Bangladesher Communist League general secretary Mosharraf Hossain Nannu, Workers Party (reconstituted) leader Abdus Sattar and others spoke at the rally.
\nSeveral thousand people from neighbouring upazilas and districts joined the rally at Phulbari where a number of gates were set up by left parties to welcome the marchers.
\nThe rally was followed by a cultural programme where Charan Shilpi Goshthi, Samageet and other cultural troupes sang songs.<\/p>\n

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