Urdu-speaking people want vested property back

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Staff Correspondent:

The ‘Indian Origin Urdu Speaking Minority Council–Bangladesh’ on Friday urged the government to give back the property they owned before the Liberation War, instead of being evicted.

The organisation made the demand at a discussion held against the backdrop of a High Court verdict on March 29 upholding a government decision to evict Urdu-speaking people from government lands, outside their designated camps.

The discussion was arranged pray for eternal peace of ‘the victims of April fool’, according to a press release of the Council.

Speakers at the discussion said Urdu-speaking people who owned properties in the country before the Liberation War were forced to live in different camps in inhumane conditions for 45 years since independence of the country.

They said their properties were taken away and not given back and now, many of them, are compelled to take shelter at different places for various reasons.

The speakers wanted to know the reasons for depriving them of their vested land when the government was giving back ‘enemy property’ to owners belonging to the Hindu community, who had left the then East Pakistan for ‘Hindustan.’

They claimed that the Urdu-speaking people were Bangladeshis by birth and demanded equal treatment with regards to their rights to property.

Presided over by the council president Md Shamim, the discussion was also addressed by its vice president Golam Rasul, secretary general Md Afzal Warsi, treasurer Md Solaiman and women affairs secretary Baby Parveen, among others.

The organisation’s president Md Shamim told New Age that following the HC verdict they feared eviction from ‘unrecognised’ camps. ‘The country has 66 such camps.’

He said that Bangladesh has a total of about 10 lakh Urdu speaking people and the largest section of them live in the camps.

The country has a total of 116 designated camps for Urdu speaking people.

The March 29 HC verdict also asked the government to rehabilitate evicted persons who possessed national identity cards and have expressed loyalty to Bangladesh, as soon as possible.

Different organisations working for the rights of Urdu Speaking people said around 90 per cent of the Urdu-speaking people expressed their loyalty to Bangladesh and had a national ID card of Bangladesh.

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Source: http://newagebd.net/216949/urdu-speaking-people-want-vested-property-back/

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