Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Tuesday said the July-August Movement became successful because the people wanted a change, asserting that its success belonged to the country’s people rather than any individual or political party, reports BSS.

“The movement that took place in Bangladesh during July and August was entirely a people’s movement. The July Movement succeeded because the people wanted a change.

The movement succeeded only when the people became fully involved in it,” he said.

The Prime Minister was addressing a discussion titled ‘Seventeen Years of Relentless Struggle for Democracy and the Bloodstained July Awakening’, organised by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) at Krishibid Institution Bangladesh (KIB) in the capital.

Tarique Rahman, also Chairman of BNP, said people from all walks of life made the movement successful through their active participation.

He said, “We have made our position absolutely clear that the credit for the success of the July Movement goes to the people of this country. It is not the achievement of any individual or any single political party.”