Nazmul himself shared an online link of the report on his Facebook wall yesterday. As of filing this report at 10:25pm, the post had 435 likes and 76 comments
Following the publication of a report on Bangladesh Chhatra League General Secretary Siddique Nazmul Alam in Dhaka Tribune yesterday, leaders and activists of the student wing have reacted with abusive comments against the newspaper on social networking site Facebook.
Dhaka Tribune yesterday published a report headlined “General good fortune,” on how Nazmul Alam, a man from a lower-middle class family became a rich person overnight and became a “special person of state” after obtaining the party post.
Nazmul himself shared an online link of the report on his Facebook wall yesterday. As of filing this report at 10:25pm, the post had 435 likes and 76 comments.
In their comments, the Facebook users – most of them Chhatra League supporters – termed Nazmul “a great organiser,” “a revolutionary leader,” “the name of an institution;” while they used defamatory words like “yellow journalism” and “bastard child” to describe the Dhaka Tribune and its reporters’ journalism practices.
Nazmul shared the post at around 4am yesterday with a short note saying: “Probably I have been belittled for calling Tarek Rahman a ‘Fokirnir Poot’ [son of a beggar] at a rally. I do not hold anything against anyone, but those who have known me for a long time already know about me. Politics…!!!!”
The first comment on his post came from Mulla Sumon, the organising secretary of Kishoreganj district Chhatra League. He wrote: “Brother, Allah is with you.”
Shahriar Bakht Shaju, an activist from Sylhet district Chhatra League, wrote: “Do not be afraid brother. You are the idol of million students.”
Dr Javed, a lecturer of pathology department at Sir Salimullah Medical College, wrote: “Bloody yellow journalism.”
Mithu Khan, former general secretary of Pirojpur Chhatra League, wrote: “They [Dhaka Tribune] are not journalist, they are dangerous.”
Michale Chowdhury from Stamford university wrote: “Naked yellow journalism.”
Mentioning Nazmul as the “greatest contemporary student organiser,” Hasib Ibne Hanna Hridom, an activist of Netrokona Chhatra League, wrote: “I am protesting the false, fabricated, baseless and politically motivated report of Dhaka Tribune against revolutionary leader Nazmul Alam. These yellow journalists should get the highest punishment. In my opinion, they are not journalists, they are licenced brokers.”
Quoting a previous speech by Nazmul, Kamruzzaman Khan Sweet wrote: “On August 31 you said ‘people do not just call them [journalists] Khobish and rubbish for no good reason.’ They behave as if they control the country with their writing. But when journalists make buildings, buy cars, own newspapers – nobody writes about them. Because all those bastards are brothers.”
Syed Sazzad Rayhan, a student, wrote: “Brother, we are on truth’s path… your path.”
Source: Dhaka Tribune
