Chandpur (Bangladesh) January 25 (BDNews24): Mahfuj made the remarks while exchanging greetings with students and the public in Chandpur’s Hajiganj Bazar.
“Regardless of BNP and Jamaat, all political parties, student organisations, workers, women, and Islamic scholars who are pro-Bangladesh will stay in Bangladesh and, through a fair election process, will establish governance in Bangladesh through a positive competition.”
“They will establish a non-discriminatory and just governance system for the people of Bangladesh.”
On Aug 5, 2024, the Awami League government’s decade-and-a-half of rule ended as ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country for India in the face of a student-led mass movement.
The former prime minister, the Awami League government’s ministers, MPs, top party leaders and those allied with them have since been accused in a number of cases over the violence and casualties during the July Uprising. These include charges of genocide and murder.
Advisor Mahfuj said, “Our government’s priority is to prosecute murderers, enforced disappearances, and rapes, implement reforms and of course, to give Bangladesh a fair election with the participation of all pro-Bangladesh political parties – which has not been possible in the past 16 years.”
Mahfuj Alam also known as Mahfuj Abdullah, is a Bangladeshi activist and was a coordinator of the liaison committee of Anti-discrimination Students Movement which led the Student–People’s uprising. He currently holds the position of the Adviser[3][4] and Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser of the Interim Government of Bangladesh.[5][6][7]
Alam was born in 1998 in Narayanpur village, located in the Ramganj Upazila of Lakshmipur district. He completed his SSC (Dakhil) from Gallak Darussunnat Alim Madrasa in Chandpur, and later passed his HSC (Alim) from Tamirul Millat Kamil Madrasa. In the academic year 2015-16, he was a student in the Department of Law at the University of Dhaka.[9]
He was the coordinator of the liaison committee of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.[10] He was appointed as a special assistant to the chief adviser of the interim government with the status of a secretary on 28 August.
On 25 September 2024, while speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative on the sidelines of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, Muhammad Yunus, Chief Advisor to Bangladesh’s interim government, referred to Mahfuj as “the brain” of the Student-People’s uprising, which culminated in the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s administration.
Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury, an editor of the Indian newspaper The Economic Times, alleged that Alam is a former member of the Islamist fundamentalist organization, Hizb ut-Tahrir. Alam later refuted the claim in a Facebook post. Mahfuj was also the victim of many false propaganda that was coming from various paid media, which was later clarified and justified as false claim.
On 16 December 2024, Mahfuj Alam showed Indian states of Tripura, Assam, and West Bengal a part of Bangladesh in an image shared in his Facebook post, while declaring the need for “a new geography and system”. Alam also claimed that the cultures of Northeast India and Bangladesh have been suppressed by “Hindu extremists” and “anti-Bengal attitude” of the upper-caste Hindus.[19] Harshil Mehta, an editor of the Indian newsportal News18, commented that his ‘statement represents a direct threat to India’s sovereignty and hints at demographic changes through the persecution of Hindus.’
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