Leaders of the Anti-Fascist and Anti-War Alliance on Sunday, at a protest rally in Dhaka, called on the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led government to scrap the ‘unequal’ trade deal signed with the United States government during the rule of interim government.
The Anti-fascist and Anti-war Alliance, a combine of 13 political parties, organised the rally in front of the National Press Club chaired by its coordinator and general secretary of the Socialist Party of Bangladesh, Bazlur Rashid Firoz.
Bazlur Rashid said that the interim government had signed an ‘unequal’ trade deal with the United States government, by which America would benefit more and Bangladesh would be deprived.
He called on the BNP government to take immediate steps to scrap the deal after discussing it in the parliament.
He warned that if the government did not scrap the deal, the left political wings would wage tougher movements.
Bangladesher Samyabadi Andolan coordinator Shubhrangshu Chakrabortty, Socialist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist) coordinator Masud Rana, Communist Party of Bangladesh president Kazi Sazzad Zahir Chandan, Bangladesh Jasod standing committee member Mushtuq Husain, Sonar Bangla Party president Harun-or-Rashid and others attended the programme.
The rally was followed by a procession that paraded several city roads.
