Leaders of Jatiya Nagarik Committee, an organisation launched by the youths who participated in the recent student-people uprising, on Saturday alleged that different political parties were trying to claim the students and people, killed during the movement, as the members of their party in exchange for money.

The convener of the organisation, Muhammad Nasiruddin Patwary, addressing a rally as the chair in Dhaka, termed the issue as ‘incidents like buying animals from cattle markets’.

He, however, did not mention the names of the political parties that were engaged in such acts.

He called on the political parties to stop such acts and urged them to be united for the implementation of the spirit of the student movement against discrimination.

He urged the interim government to hold trials of the killers of students and people during the recent movement and ensure exemplary punishment for the offenders.

Jatiya Nagarik Committee organised the rally in front of the National Museum at Shahbagh in the capital to mark two months of the student-led mass uprising that ousted the Sheikh Hasina regime on August 5.

The rally was held braving the heavy rain.

Nasiruddin called on the interim government to take immediate steps to reduce price hikes of essential commodities to reduce the common people’s suffering.

He also expressed his disaffections over the inadequate steps of the interim government for the flood-affected people of the northern regions of the country.

Family members of some of the victims who sacrificed their lives in the uprising addressed the rally.

Conducted by a member of the committee, Ariful Islam, Jatiya Nagarik Committee member and co-founder of Maayer Daak, Sanjida Islam Tuli, and the committee leaders Moshiur Rahman, Mohammad Ataullah, Ashraf Mehedi, Abdul Ahad, and Preetam Das also spoke.