POBNEWS24, Dhaka Sept 3, 2024 : The current national anthem of Bangladesh is against the existence of our independent Bangladesh. It represents the era of cancellation of the partition of Bengal to unite the two Bengals. How can the music that is made to unite the two Bengalis be the national anthem of independent Bangladesh? This music was imposed on us by India in 1971. There are many songs to sing the national anthem. This government should form a new commission and create a new national anthem.
Ex-army officer Brigadier General Abdullahil Aman Azmi, the mezzo son of late Ghulam Azam, the former emir of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, said the words by highlighting his own experience.
He said, I have been detained for two reasons. They are, my ancestral identity and I was vocal against India. I want all neighborhood friends. A friend who harms me, I cannot consider him a friend but an enemy. As long as India behaves as a friend, I will embrace it, if India behaves as an enemy, I will think of it as an enemy and call it an enemy. Someone told me while in secret detention that you are the victim of a deep conspiracy by foreign powers. This is why I have been asked time and again why you are so vocal against India?
He said these things by connecting to the online platform Zoom in a news conference organized at the auditorium of the National Press Club on Tuesday.
This former army officer is suffering from various physical complications including teeth and eyes while staying in the mirror room of Gupta prison for eight years. Radhaneti joined the press conference from that hospital while undergoing treatment. Joining him, he expressed his condolences, gratitude and wishes to the martyrs, injured and students-jamantar movement who were injured and killed in the war of independence. Also highlighted the actual number of martyrs in the war of independence and the relevance of the national anthem. He demanded that the national anthem and the constitution be changed.
