BNP Standing Committee member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Saturday said it would be a ‘serious mistake’ to think that young people alone can build Bangladesh.

“The country was not built only by a few students of Dhaka city or Dhaka University but with the participation of disadvantaged people from villages, rickshaw-pullers and other ordinary citizens. Their thoughts, aspirations and thirst for democracy and economic emancipation cannot be ignored in the process of nation-building,” he said.

The BNP leader was speaking at the launching ceremony of a book’ titled ‘Politics of Tarique Rahman: The Sublimity of Mass Uprising '. at the Jatiya Press Club.

He said young people always played a vital role at the forefront of movements but farmers and general people also stood beside them.

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The BNP leader said, “People are not monsters or demons who want democracy. We want to build a state where good governance, human rights and the fulfillment of basic needs will be ensured.”

About reforms, he said those cannot be done sitting in air-conditioned rooms in Dhaka or it is not like turning an electric light on and off, rather it is a continuous process.

Moyeen Khan said, “What we expected from this government has not been delivered. However, though delayed, they have now announced election time.”

The book’s author, Prof Saiful Islam of Dhaka University’s Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, along with former Vice-Chancellor of University of Health Sciences and founder of the Centre for Cultural Development Prof Liaquat Ali, Bangladesh Open University Pro-VC Dr Dil Rowshan Jinnat Ara Nazneen, and former Professor of Environmental Sciences at Jahangirnagar University Dr Jamal Uddin Runu also spoke at the event.

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Prof Dr Mohammad Amirul Islam, General Secretary of the Nationalist Teachers’ Forum at Rajshahi University and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology presided over the event.