Communal forces on the rise after fall of fascism

BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy yesterday warned that communal forces are rising in the country after the fall of fascism.

“Those whom you call fundamentalists, I also call them fundamentalists. They are now selling tickets to heaven,” he said at a discussion.

Gayeshwar, a BNP standing committee member, said a party is telling people that if they stay with it, they will go to heaven, and if not, they will go to hell.

“Yet they themselves don’t know whether they will go to heaven or not. That’s why I say communal forces are on the rise in the country. We have freed ourselves from fascism, but instead of democratic values, a frenzy of communalism has started, which helps create mobs,” he observed.

The BNP leader warned that if the state system cannot be kept on the path of democracy, communalism would become twice as difficult as fascism and ultimately lead public life to destruction.

In today’s modern world, he said communal forces would not allow free thought and the growth of talent.

Gayeshwar said BNP believes in religious values but not in using religion to spread hatred. “Whatever the faith one follows, religion is a way of life meant to guide people in the right direction,” he said. Human Research and Analysis Foundation organised the discussion titled “July Revolution and the Future Thoughts of Democracy” at the Jatiya Press Club.