National Citizens Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam speaks to journalists after visiting the grave of Abrar Fahad in Kushtia on 8 July 2025. Photo: BSS
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National Citizens Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam speaks to journalists after visiting the grave of Abrar Fahad in Kushtia on 8 July 2025. Photo: BSS
National Citizens Party (NCP) is doing politics along the path of the 2024 July mass uprising, NCP Convener Nahid Islam said today (8 July).
“Abrar Fahad has shown the path of being pro-Bangladesh, anti-Indian aggression and anti-Delhi hegemony. The mass uprising was organised following that path and the NCP is doing politics along that path,” he said after visiting the grave of Abrar Fahad in Kushtia on the eighth-day of NCP’s month-long July March demanding justice, reforms and a new constitution.
Nahid said “Indian-subservient terrorist organisation” Bangladesh Chhatra League brutally tortured Abrar Fahad all night and martyred him as he spoke against the Indian aggression and for the people’s welfare.
“Abrar Fahad’s crime was, he spoke for the people of the country and against Indian aggression,” he said.
He also said in 2019, we had formed the anti-Delhi hegemony movement across Bangladesh in protest against the killing of Abrar Fahad and that movement was one of the milestones in our fight against fascism.
Mentioning that the NCP wants to build pro-Bangladesh politics, Nahid said they hold the spirit of those who have been subjected to disappearances, murders and torture in the last 16 years in the fight against fascism.
“We want to establish a pro-Bangladesh politics and an independent, sovereign and dignified Bangladesh with the spirit of the martyrs in the anti-fascist movements,” he said.
The NCC has started a nationwide ‘Desh Garte July Padayatra’ (July March for building Bangladesh) demanding justice, reforms and a new constitution from 1 July and it will continue till 30 July.
The NCP’s convoy reached Kushtia today on the eighth day of the march and they started the day’s programmes by visiting the grave of martyr Abrar Fahad.
On the night of 6 October 2019, leaders and activists of the Chhatra League beat and killed Abrar Fahad, a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), over a Facebook status protesting an uneven agreement between Bangladesh and India and water aggression by New Delhi.