BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir commented that everyone should unite to break free from slavery. He remarked that the country is currently facing difficult times and emphasized the necessity for unity to address this situation. He stated that there is no alternative for all to unite in order to escape slavery.

He delivered this call for unity during a civil funeral meeting held at the Engineers Institute auditorium in the capital on Saturday evening, commemorating the first death anniversary of Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, a freedom fighter and the founder of Gonoshasthaya Kendra.

Fakhrul remarked, "We are under a dreadful regime where killings and disappearances occur easily; we are enduring trying times with a political and economic climate in disarray, a partisan judiciary, a ruined electoral system, and virtually nothing left unscathed; the essence of the liberation war has hardly been found, and the constitution and electoral processes have been ravaged by corruption."

Fakhrul further emphasized, "There is nothing remaining; the unity and spirit of the liberation war we speak of have vanished entirely. To revive the essence of the liberation war, for which figures like Zafrullah Chowdhury fought, and to truly establish Bangladesh as a democratic state, we must draw inspiration from individuals like Zafrullah Bhai."

Organized by Julhas Naim Babu, a member of the editorial board of the Gana Samhati Andolon, the memorial meeting was attended by various civil society members, including Hossain Zillur Rahman from BRAC, Badiul Alam Majumdar from SUJON, Sharmin Murshid from Brotee, Professor Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir from Dhaka University, Professor Asif Nazrul, photographer Shahidul Alam, Abdul Haque from FBCCI, human rights activist Barrister Sara Hossain, Syeda Rizwana Hasan from BELA, Professor A ZM Zahid Hossain from Combined Professional Council, Ishtiaq Aziz Ulfat from the Nationalist Freedom Fighters Party, Sanjida Islam from 'Mayer Dak', Mustafa Jamal Haider from Jatiya Party (Kazi Zafar), Saiful Haque from the Revolutionary Workers Party, Jonaid Saki from Gana Samhati Andolon, Saki, Subrata Chowdhury from Gano Forum, Sheikh Rafiqul Islam Bablu from Bhasani Anusari Parishad, Hasnat Qayyum from Rashtro Sangskar Andolon, Tanya Rob from JSD, Nurul Haque Noor from Gana Adhikar Parishad, Mia Mashiuzzaman, and the late Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury's daughter Risthi Chowdhury, who addressed the memorial meeting.