Dhaka, March 14, 2026:

Information and Broadcasting Minister Zahir Uddin Swapan said that currently three elements are prevailing in healthy politics in the country, the current elected government under the leadership of Deshanayak Tariq Rahman is fully determined to protect Bangladeshi nationalism, multi-party democracy and religious values.

He said, “If the boundaries of religious values can be protected from the hands of religious traders, there will be no power left to defeat Bangladesh.” The minister said this in a discussion meeting organized on the occasion of the 47th death anniversary of prominent politician ‘Mashiur Rahman Jadu Mia’ at Jahur Hossain Chowdhury Auditorium of Jatiya Press Club on Saturday.

The information minister said, “Mashiur Rahman Jadu Mia was the visionary leader who handed over the symbol of Maulana Bhasani’s grain of rice to martyred President Ziaur Rahman. In that continuity, the leadership of the rice grain is in the hands of Tariq Rahman today, holding the hands of the country’s leader Begum Khaleda Zia.

He said, Jadu Mia’s political wisdom and achievements are behind this political symbolic transformation. Although he died at the age of 55, he laid the foundations of today’s democratic and multi-party politics.

Zahir Uddin Swapan firmly said, ‘Our government is very consciously working to embody Bangladeshi nationalism. Our clear word is Bangladesh first. At this time, he also said, those who are infatuated with Delhi or those who are attracted to Pindi, we want to wake up those disillusioned with the slogan ‘Bangladesh first’.

Highlighting the importance of the elections held on February 12, the Minister of Information and Broadcasting said, ‘One group wanted to make the free elections controversial and prolonged. But we have successfully implemented the elections, which are an inevitable part of democratic politics. He also said that the journey of the 13th National Parliament has started on March 12. Parliamentary politics was revived in 1991 under the leadership of country leader Begum Khaleda Zia, which was later usurped by the dictator Ershad, misaligned during Sheikh Hasna’s regime, through am-dummy elections, late-night elections and one-sided elections.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Zahir Uddin Swapan said, “Today, under the leadership of Tariq Rahman, the journey of parliamentary democracy and politics has started again in the country.” In the discussion meeting, the minister referred to the change of 75 and said that because of the one-party rule of Awami League, that terrible political context was created.

He said, “The anarchy that was created from Khandkar Mushtaq to Justice Sayem Sahib, the sepoys saved the nation from that anarchy only by freeing martyr Ziaur Rahman.”

At that time, the minister also said that leaders like Moshiur Rahman Jadu Mia stood by the side of Shahid Zia that day, Awami League got the opportunity to return to the Parliament for the second time. Prominent intellectual Professor Dr. spoke as the main speaker in the program under the chairmanship of prominent rhymer Abu Saleh. Mahbub Ullah Apart from this, Sheikh Rafiqul Islam Bablu, one of the leaders of Demokratia Mancha and chairman of Bhasani Janashakti Party, prominent politician Syed Didar Bakat and politician Rita Rahman among other political party leaders spoke.

SOURCE: WSN24