Call for ban on children of anti-liberation forces from government jobs

Children of freedom fighters under the banner of Amra Muktijoddhar Sontan on Saturday urged the government to announce the children of anti-liberation forces ineligible for civil service.

The demand came at a time when students and job-seekers have been waging quota reform protest across the country calling quota system ‘discriminatory’.

According to the system, 56 percent posts are reserved for different quotas, including 30 percent for children of freedom fighters, 10 percent each for women and particular districts, 5 percent for small ethnic groups, and 1 percent for people with disabilities.

The platform urged the government not to reduce the quota allocated for them and to dismiss children of anti-liberation forces who are the government job holders.

“We want the government to declare the children of anti-liberation forces ineligible for the government job,” said Sajjad Hossain, president of the platform, at a rally at the National Press Club.

For the sake of security of the state, their assets should also be confiscated and Jamaat-Shibir politics should be banned, he said demanding quota from the preliminary test of Bangladesh Civil Service.

The organisation also demanded bringing those involved with the vandalism of the Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor’s residence to book.

Speaking at the rally, DU Sociology Professor AKM Jamal Uddin said the existing quota system has helped Bangladesh graduate to the middle income country. “So, the quota system should remain in force.”