Speakers at an anti-corruption rally here yesterday urged the people to discard corrupt politicians in the next parliamentary polls for building a corruption-free country.
“The rally should be resonate with a pledge of electing honest candidates in the upcoming election,” said Shushashoner Janney Nagorik (Shujan) President Prof Muzaffer Ahmad while releasing balloons at the rally in front of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
A procession from the rally, organised in observance of the International Anti-corruption Day yesterday, began from the parliament building and ended in front of Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre with the slogan “Wake up people, wake up to prevent corruption”.
“We had hoped that the authorities concerned would take effective measures against corrupt politicians regarding their participation in the election but the expectation was not fulfilled. It is the people who themselves can prevent corrupt politicians in the election,” added Mozaffer.
Primary and Mass Education Adviser Rasheda K Chowdhury and Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Lt Gen (retd) Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury also addressed the rally.
“Preventing corrupt politicians in the election would be the best way to pay tribute to the martyred freedom fighters who laid down their lives for a better future freed from all kinds of exploitation,” said Adviser Rasheda.
December 9 is fixed as the international anti-corruption day but Transparency International Bangladesh and Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) shifted the day this year as it coincides with the vacation of Eid-ul-Azha.
Hasan Mashhud said the rally has been arranged to make a promise of building a corruption-free country in this month of victory and to uphold the fact that people always stand against corruption.
Hundreds of people, including students, NGO activists, government employees, civil society members, journalists and even the disabled, thronged on the parliament building premises since morning holding placards and banners and wearing badges and ribbons with anti-corruption message.
In observance of the day, both TIB and ACC will be holding a weeklong anti-corruption campaign across the country to create awareness among people about corruption ahead of the election.
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