PCP Matiranga sub-district and college branch conference celebrated

The hoisting programme of the national flag with the national anthem

The Chittagong Hill Tracts Hill Students Council (PCP) is an organisation of the indigenous Jumma students in the CHT, has celebrated their 3^rd Matiranga sub-district and college branch conference at Horticulture Park in Khagrachhari town yesterday. 

"Oppose fratricidal conflict and force the movement to implementation of the CHT treaty", was the slogan of the conference. The programme was begun through raising the national flag and the PCP's flag with the national anthem and the party anthem of PCP. PCJSS vice-president and the CHT Regional Council member Mr. Rupayan Dewan was present as a chief guest and Mr. Tatindra Lal Chakma alias Major Pele also present as a special guest and deliver their important speech in the programme.

The oath taking ceremony of the newly elected committee of PCP

The speakers encouraged the students to concentrate them in their studies and at the same time read books on biography of wise men and revolutionary leaders and also read those books which can help a man to be free from any dogmatism and extremism. The speakers further called upon the students not to hate politics and avoid politics but to be politically conscious, so that they can judge what is right and what is wrong, as without politics it is difficult to survive in the CHT, in the country and in the world. The speakers also opined that only with active participation of students and the youths the closure of ongoing Jumma political violence and implementation of the CHT Accord could be achieved. 

The oath taking ceremony of the newly elected committee of PCP

The speakers opined that BNP does not recognize the CHT Accord while Awami League signed the accord and gave her strongest commitment for its implementation, but it has betrayed with the Jumma people and hence remarked, “We want to see how the Awami League comes to us in next one month or so. Mr. Rupayan Dewan, vice president of PCJSS and CHT Regional Council member told the audience that the CHT administration was brought under active service in 1982 under sections 7 and 8 of the Bangladesh Army Act 1952 in aide of the CHT’s civil administration for maintaining law and order. But, he questioned the rationale of keeping this order valid as of now giving the instances of recent communal attack on the Jummas in Tendyong union (3^rd August) and also the communal attack in Khagarachari and Baghaihat in February 2010 as it fails to protect the Jummas.

At the end of the conference, formed a 17-member of Matiranga sub-district branch and a 17-member of Matiranga college committee and declared Mr. Nilay Marma as president and Mr. Bim Chakma as general secretary of the PCP Matiranga sub-district branch and also declared Mr. James Tripura and Mr. Jeeban Jouty Chakma as president and general secretary of the PCP Matiranga college committee respectively. 

PCJSS central committee finance secretary Mr. Uday Kiran Tripura, PCJSS central committee secretary of student affairs Mr. Sudhakar Tripura, PCJSS central committee assistant secretary of student affairs Mr. Angshuman Chakma, PCP Central committee vice-president Mr. Rupan Chakma, PCP central committee general secretary Amar Sing Chakma,  PCP Central organising secretary Mr. Santa Chakma, PCP central committee assistant general secretary Mr. Suhel Tripura, Matiranga college PCP activist Miss Jely Chakma also spoke of the conference chaired by Mr. Rupesh Chakma.