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Published : 19 Jul 2025, 12:43 AM
A youth rally in Dhaka has called on the interim government to make employment for jobless young people a top priority.
At the event held on Friday afternoon by the Bangladesh Youth Union’s Dhaka division, protesters demanded the launch of online registration followed by either a job or unemployment allowance within one year for registered youths.
Speakers also called on the administration to ensure immediate merit-based recruitment without bribery, end job and transfer trading, eliminate nepotism and corruption, and provide easier access to loans and other incentives to support youth entrepreneurship.
Speaking at the rally at the Central Shaheed Minar, Mihir Ghosh, co-secretary general of the Communist Party of Bangladesh, criticised parties which questioned the Liberation War and said current government actions are treading the same path as last year's regime.
“The ‘fascist’ government in power this time last year undermined the Liberation War. We spoke out against ‘fascism’ then, and we continue to speak out today against those who are attacking the spirit of the Liberation War.”
Mihir alleged that 95 percent of the population owns no resources while just 5 percent hold everything.
“The Awami League formed syndicates and looted the banks. That is why the people took to the streets. We raised the demand to ‘oust misrule’,” he said.
The CPB leader added, “We were on the streets. Sheikh Hasina was forced to flee. But now what do we see? Is this interim government truly neutral or is it turning into an unelected party government? Can this government hold a neutral election?
“It is now backing the perpetrators of the 1971 massacre.”
Youth Union President Khan Asaduzzaman Masum alleged that those who came to power after the July Uprising have started making business out of it.
“Within a year of July [Uprising], you took over offices at the Secretariat. You’ve turned July into a business. The Awami League profited from the Liberation War, and now you’re doing the same with July,” Masum said.
Claiming that 36 rickshaw-pullers died during the July uprising, he asked” “Have you done anything for them?”
Masum also accused the interim government of attempting to hand over Chattogram Port to the Americans.
He demanded decentralised job examinations, saying rural aspirants should not incur high costs travelling to Dhaka for tests.
The union’s former president Mahir Shahriar Reza said inequality and lack of employment had sparked the Uprising, but the current government appears to be following the same path, showing “no concern” for youth job creation.
