Online Desk, CHT News
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Ushatan Chakma, President of the Chatra-Janatar Sangram Parishad (Student-People’s Movement Council), has urged members of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS) led by Santu Larma to refrain from activities that go against the interests of the Jumma people. At the same time, he called on them to stop fratricidal conflict and contribute to building greater national unity among the Jumma community.
In a post from his personal Facebook account on August 28, 2025, he wrote:
“As the President of the Chhatra-Janatar Sangram Parishad, I urge the leaders and activists of the JSS (Santu Larma faction) to refrain from activities that go against the national interests of the Jumma people.
“I have learned from various sources that members of the JSS (Santu Larma group) are currently engaging in anti-people activities in coordination with state forces in areas such as Panchari and Dighinala.
“The leaders and activists of the JSS (Santu Larma) must remember that the interests of the ruling forces and the interests of the Jumma people are not the same—rather, they are opposed to each other. Therefore, trying to harm groups and organizations fighting for the people’s rights by taking the help of the ruling powers is suicidal and detrimental to national interests. I strongly urge them to refrain from such heinous and disgraceful activities.”
Addressing the JSS members, he further stated:
“To the JSS (Santu Larma) leaders and activists, I want to say—Bangladesh’s ruling elite uses a strategy of making Jummas fight against Jummas. Do not become a part of this conspiracy and bring harm to your own people.
“At a time when the JSS (Santu Larma) leadership should be striving to establish greater national unity by including all, or willingly joining others’ efforts to build unity and collectively struggle for rightful demands, engaging in conflict with one’s own brothers without any reason only benefits the ruling class. This can in no way be seen as an act of patriotism. Therefore, this role of the JSS (Santu Larma) is completely unacceptable to the people.”
Mr. Ushaton concluded by calling on the JSS (Santu Larma) members not to act as a “B-Team” of the ruling forces and to immediately end fratricidal conflict and contribute instead to the establishment of greater national Jumma unity.
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