Babu Mia, a 21-year old physically challenged youth, is a second-year student of the honors course at the History Department in Magura Adrasha College. The speech impaired with a maimed leg lost his father in a road accident when he was only two-year-old. After the death of his father, his mother with two young kids moved from Jhenaidah to his maternal grandparents’ house in Magura. But the grandparents and uncles were also financially insolvent which forced his mother to join a garment factory in Narayanganj for their livelihood at one stage. His younger brother Emon started working as a day labourer at Narinda in Dhaka. Babu had to stay with his grandmother after his mother and brother shifted from Magura. But what an irony of fate! Like his father, his grandmother also died in a road accident last year keeping Babu completely alone. He became a burden for his uncles. Their families were unwilling to take care of him. His dream to continue his study became pale. Finding no other way, he collected the phone number of the Prime Minister on his own and sent an SMS telling about his misery.

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Tuesday said inequality and exploitation still prevail in the country as the dream of independence is yet to be fulfilled, even after 50 years of the Liberation War. “The dream with which the great Liberation War was organised and the purpose for which the heroic martyrs sacrificed their lives that dream has not been materialized yet,” he said. The Jatiya Party chief also said the struggle to implement the spirit of the Liberation War is not over yet. “Our politics will continue to materialise the dream of the Liberation War.” READ: Bring down fuel prices in line with global market fall: GM Quader He made the remarks while talking to reporters after paying tributes to martyred intellectuals by placing a wreath at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial at Mirpur in the city, marking the Martyred Intellectuals Day. GM Quader said the Liberation War was organised with the aim of freeing the nation from discrimination and exploitation. “The Pakistanis had discriminated against us. At that time, Pakistanis made Bengalis the second-class citizens and they deprived us of all rights,” he said. The Jatiya Party chairman said fighting against inequality and exploitation was the main spirit of the Liberation War. “Even in the 50 years of independence, we’ve not been able to rise above inequality and we’ve not been able to build a society free from exploitation.” He said there has been now inequality between the ruling party and the opposition. ”Billions of dollars are being siphoned off abroad from the country. So, the self-sacrifices of millions of martyrs in the great Liberation War and the exchange of chastity of mothers and sisters and the highest sacrifice of the martyred intellectuals have not yet succeeded.” READ: UP polls: GM Quader says no change in centre-capturing culture GM Quader said their party will move forward to build a new Bangladesh free from discrimination and exploitation. “We want to build that Bangladesh for which the heroic martyrs sacrificed their lives.”