Staff Correspondent

The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, which led to the fall of the Awami League government amid a mass uprising, has warned that no general election will be held in the country until the party is brought to book.

“There will be no election before the trial of the Awami League. There was no justice for those killed and injured in the July movement,” Anti-Discrimination Student Movement spokesperson Umama Fatema said at the ‘March for Unity’ programme on Tuesday.

The platform of students organised the event in the capital’s Central Shaheed Minar this afternoon.

Welcoming the government’s ‘delayed’ initiative to declare the ‘July Proclamation’, Umama said they do not want to waste time further over the issue.

“July has not gone. We still have the spirit in us. We will not let 2024 fail like 1971 and 1990,” she added.

In her speech, Jatiya Nagorik Committee spokesperson Samanta Sharmin urged the government to declare the ‘July Proclamation’ by 15 January.

“If the July Proclamation is not announced by 15 January, the students will be forced to take to the streets again. I request the students and people not to leave the streets without ensuring justice and reforms,” she said.

Hundreds of members of different units of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and the Jatiya Nagorik Committee gathered at the Shaheed Minar to make a success of the ‘March for Unity’ programme.

They chanted various slogans like “power or people; people, people”, “we want Sheikh Hasina to be hanged”, “Delhi or Dhaka; Dhaka, Dhaka”.

The event began by observing a one-minute silence in remembrance of those martyred in the July uprising.