, Jan. 13 -- The Liberation War of 1971, the mass uprising against autocracy in 1990 and the student-people's uprising of 2024 are all rooted in the same aspiration and are not contradictory to one another, said Debapriya Bhattacharya, Convener of the Citizen's Platform, on Tuesday.

"According to the Proclamation of Independence of April 10, 1971, the goal was to establish a sovereign state ensuring equality, human dignity and social justice. The Liberation War was the principal means to build that state. The subsequent movements emerged from the same aspiration to realise those ideals," Debapriya said.

He was speaking at a programme, titled 'National Election 2026 and Citizens' Expectations', organised by the Citizen's Platform in the ...