Preserve 30% quota: Children of freedom fighters

Children of freedom fighters under the banner of Amra Muktijoddhar Sontan have urged the government to preserve 30 percent quota for them in public service and to form a commission for its smooth implementation.

The freedom fighters' children also urged the government to announce the children of the anti-liberation forcers disqualified for the government jobs.

They came up with the call at a rally staged in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka today, reports Bangla daily Prothom Alo.

They also placed a nine-point demand including preservation of the quota system for them from the preliminary test of the Bangladesh Civil Service.    

However, they did not announce any fresh programme from the rally but said that they will remain on the street to realise their demands.

Dhaka University Social Science department teacher AKM Zamal Uddin, Jagannath University teacher Kazi Saifuddin and President of the Amra Muktijoddhar Sontan Sazzad Hossain and its General Secretary Rasheduzzaman Shahin also addressed the rally.

From the rally, they said the ruling Awami League believes in the spirit of the Liberation War and thus it cannot abolish the quota system for the children of the freedom fighters.

"We will foil any conspiracy if it is hatched against the interest of the freedom fighters and their children," the speakers warned.

Among the nine-point demand, they said punishment of those, who will undermine the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, freedom fighters and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, will have to be ensured.

The freedom fighters will have to be recognised constitutionally and an act to protect the interest of the freedom fighters will have to be incorporated, they said.

For the sake of security of the country, assets of the anti-liberation forces will have to be confiscated and Jamaat-Shibir politics to be banned, they said.