Ganajagaran Mancha celebrated the second day of its three-day long anniversary celebration yesterday with several programmes.
The Mancha started its programme at 3pm with a cultural event including songs, poems and slogans.
Around 5:30pm, Mancha convener Imran H Sarkar inaugurated a photo exhibition at ‘Projonmo Chattar.’ The photos were captured in the early days of the movement by many Ganajagaran activists and prominent photographers.
Imran told the Dhaka Tribune: “We have arranged the photo exhibition to uphold every positive and negative side of our one-year-long movement through these photos.”
“With a view to spreading our movement among the next generation, we are holding this exhibition so that the youth can understood why we organised this movement,” he added.
When asked about the future plan of the movement, Imran said: “We have consulted with many people about our future plan and we have already made a draft plan, which we will reveal on Friday at the mass rally scheduled on 3pm at Projonmo Chattar.”
Journalists who witnessed the movement unravel from its beginning expressed their views at the Mancha in an event held around 7.15pm.
Dhaka Tribune Special Reporter Zulfikar Ali Manik said he considered the Mancha a movement of the mass people. “Demanding punishment of war criminals is not a demand of any particular political party, it is a demand of all the people of our country.”
“If I were living during 1971 and worked as a journalist, I would obviously take sides with my country. That is why now I am here with Ganajagaran Mancha, as it is a movement of our national interest, not any political interest,” he said.
Sharmin Nira, a junior reporter of Ekattor TV, said: “We have never seen the language movement or the Liberation War, but we have seen the movement of Ganajagaran Mancha which has inspired us to work as journalists.”