"Please go to parliament, even it is for a day, to demand an impartial experts' committee," he said, adding that such a probe body should include national and international experts.

Dr Kamal, also president of Gonoforum, was speaking at a programme at the city's Mahanagar Natyamancha on the occasion of the Mujibnagar Day yesterday. Jatiya Oikya Mancha organised the programme to observe the day as a day for national unity.

Recalling the spirit of unity in the 1960s and during the Liberation War, Dr Kamal called upon all contemporary public figures to sink their differences, uphold the cause of national security and work together for the socioeconomic

emancipation of ordinary citizens. "All must unite when national security is at stake. At such times, there is no scope for party politics."

He said the people today were being held hostage to criminal godfathers and black money, and asked all to unite under the platform of Jatiya Oikya Mancha to change politics for the better. "There has to be a meaningful change for a pro-people governance and Jatiya Oikya Mancha is a platform where all need to unite to get rid of exploitation and misrule."

Awami League leader Abdur Razzak MP, Mujahidul Islam Selim of the Communist Party of Bangladesh, Gonoforum General Secretary Saifuddin Ahmed Manik and Oikya Mancha leader Kazi Faruq Ahmed were present among others.