{"id":7224,"date":"2026-02-09T14:38:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7224"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:38:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:38:55","slug":"not-power-politics-but-justice-mamunul-haque-urges-votes-for-rickshaw-symbol-in-national-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7224","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not Power Politics, But Justice\u2019: Mamunul Haque Urges Votes for \u2018Rickshaw\u2019 Symbol in National Address"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calling for a politics anchored in justice rather than power, Mamunul Haque urged citizens to vote for the \u201cRickshaw\u201d symbol in the upcoming 13th national election and to back the July Charter referendum with a \u201cYes.\u201d In a televised speech broadcast on Bangladesh Television, the chief of Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish framed the poll as a choice between entrenched corruption and a rights-based order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opening with prayers and tributes to historical movements\u2014from 1947 and 1952 to 1971, 1990, the 2013 Shapla events, and the 2024 student-led uprising\u2014Haque said Bangladesh belongs to \u201cworkers, farmers, scholars, women and men, hills and plains alike.\u201d He argued decades of graft and repression have hollowed state institutions, adding that politics \u201cas a power-grab\u201d destroys nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Haque endorsed state overhaul via the July Charter and called for independent and effective electoral and judicial systems, depoliticized administration, and zero tolerance for corruption, drugs and extortion. Addressing youth, he promised jobs over handouts, including an employment-guarantee program ensuring at least one earner per family, along with policies to expand domestic industry and investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On women\u2019s rights, he pledged safety and dignity at home and work, rapid trials against dowry and abuse, and stronger workplace protections. Farmers and workers, he said, would see action against middlemen, fair crop prices, subsidies, safer workplaces, and social protection. For expatriates, he outlined streamlined, broker-free services, better remittance facilities and reintegration support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Haque said governance would follow Qur\u2019an and Sunnah, adding that the state would recognize Qadiani\/Ahmadi as non-Muslim while pledging no harm to any citizen\u2019s life, security, or dignity. He cast 2008\u20132024 as years of deepening crisis\u2014eroded elections, repression, looting, and inflation\u2014and argued that \u201cnot just a government change, but a change in statecraft and political culture\u201d is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The party is contesting 26 seats under an 11-party arrangement and supporting allies elsewhere. Haque concluded by urging voters to back \u201cRickshaw\u201d in the Feb 12 election and to vote \u201cYes\u201d in the referendum, calling the moment \u201ca verdict on justice for the next generation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling for a politics anchored in justice rather than power, Mamunul Haque urged citizens to vote for the \u201cRickshaw\u201d symbol in the upcoming 13th national election and to back the July Charter referendum with a \u201cYes.\u201d In a televised speech broadcast on Bangladesh Television, the chief of Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish framed the poll as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7230,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions\/7230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}