Indian establishment tried to portray uprising as militant, anti-Hindu, Islamist takeover’

News Desk :: The Indian establishment has tried to portray the uprising as a militant, anti-Hindu, and Islamist takeover, but their propaganda and provocation are failing, said Mahfuj Alam, an adviser to the interim government.

“India should recognise unequivocally the July uprising and student-people’s democratic struggle in Bangladesh. This is the first thing to start with,” he wrote in a post on his verified Facebook profile this morning (December 4).

Mahfuj wrote, “Indophiles, or Indian allies in this part of Bengal, are thinking that things are going to cool down and avoiding the July uprising and the fascist’s atrocities won’t cost them anything. It’s a wrong idea. People are watching everything!”

He said Bangladeshi people are enjoying democratic rights without any ifs and buts after nearly two long decades. “Truth has come … The false will be doomed. Forever!”

Mahfuj further observed in the post that India should change “the Post 1975 playbook” and realise the new Bangladesh realities. “It’s not a post-’75-like situation. The July uprising was about a democratic, generational, and responsible struggle. And, this struggle will continue for a long period,” he wrote.

The adviser to the interim government also wrote that Bangladeshi people are united and dignified, unlike before. “They will fight for their dignity till their death.”

He wrote slogans like “Delhi or Dhaka, Dhaka, Dhaka” and “Motherland or Shahadat” are echoing in every corner of this country for uniting Bangladesh as one body, and India should not make this unified, dignified, and democratic Bangladesh its enemy.

“Post ’71, we succumbed to failure as a polity, but not this time,” he wrote.