Members of Bangladesh Garment Traders Association BGMEA have given a 48-hour ultimatum to dissolve the executive committee. Today, on Wednesday, in the own building of Sector 17 BGMEA, the businessmen gave a memorandum to the vice-chairman of the executive committee and the current acting president. Along with Rafiqul Islam.
Meanwhile, the business leaders said that the current committee was elected through a farce, the leaders called this committee a complete failure. The former director of BGMEA read the manuscript given to the members of the organization in front of the media. Sihab Uddouja Chowdhury, said in the manuscript, we are all aware that the present president of BGMEA SM Mannan (Kochi) is the General Secretary of Dhaka Metropolitan North Awami League. It is very sad that our president SM Mannan Kochi opened fire on the student crowd at Mirpur-10 Roundabout on August 4th with his own weapon.
2. His cadre forces under the leadership of Mr. Kochi played a key role in suppressing and killing the anti-discrimination student movement in Uttara and Mirpur. This has been published in the entire media and social media.
3. In the 2024 BGMEA Council elections, SM Abdul Mannan (Kochi) and his party seized power in a farcical election by armed cadre forces. In this vote theft, Awami League MP Salam Murshedi, former MP Mohiuddin, current Industry and Commerce Affairs Secretary Siddiqur Rahman and Dhaka North Mayor Atiqul Islam shamefully participated directly in vote rigging with their respective forces. Party president in this regard
Former Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi also cannot avoid this responsibility.
4. It is very sad that even after several hundreds of students were killed in the ongoing student movement, the current board and president did not even send a condolence message.
5. The last few weeks have shown a complete failure of BGMEA to provide effective guidance in its core responsibility of business management.
6. Today on the 7th of the month, even after everything including export, production, banking and port has been interrupted for the past 3 weeks, he has failed to give any direction to the general members regarding salary and other matters.
7. In this historic student movement and mass tide, the current president and executive council played a completely opposite role, so they have lost the moral right to carry out the full board responsibility. 8. There are serious allegations against the previous and this board of various financial scandals, irregularities, arbitrariness, abuse of power, abuse of businessmen’s organization for party and personal interests and tarnishing the image of the organization. But despite the pent-up anger of the common members, no one dared to open their mouths for fear of muscle power and business outrage. In this situation, we express no confidence in this board and strongly demand that they immediately resign and dissolve the board and hand over the responsibility by forming an interim honest, efficient and non-political board. Later, after various speeches, the business leaders left the BGMEA building after accepting the memorandum at 3:30 in the afternoon and promising to solve all the problems within the next 48 hours.
