Freedom fighter, former DUCSU VP and JSD President A.S.M. Abdur Rob. File Photo

DHAKA, Dec 15, 2025 (BSS) - Freedom fighter, former DUCSU VP and JSD President A.S.M. Abdur Rob said that the significance of Victory Day should not be confined to the past; rather, it is a day of moral, political and progressive commitment.

“After a long struggle, the Great War of Independence in 1971 gifted the nation an independent state. Victory is not a fixed achievement rather a continuous struggle,” he said. 

He made these remarks in an interview with BSS on the eve of the Victory Day to be celebrated across the country tomorrow. 

Rob terms Victory Day as a  pledge to fulfil the promise of democracy by building a non-discriminatory republic and ensuring people’s participation in state governance.
“The real goal of Victory Day after the mass uprising should be to build a non-discriminatory society where economic and social justice are ensured, freedom and sovereignty are protected from internal and external interference, and real ownership of the republic—sovereignty—is established in the hands of the people,” he said.

He said that the mass uprising of 2024 exposed the ultimate truth that the state that was born still lacks a republic based on equality, human dignity and social justice.

He said that in the new and difficult political reality, a new task has been added to Victory Day—implementing the popular aspirations of 1971 and 2024.

That task, he said, is to overthrow colonial, oppressive, authoritarian or fascist rule and establish a new political settlement based on the participation of all people and a participatory democracy, he said.

He said that the core objective of the Liberation War was to ensure an exploitation-free society, people’s sovereignty and a dignified civil life, but that consciousness has repeatedly been distorted due to long dictatorship and discrimination.

Rob further said that victory is not a fixed or self-sufficient achievement, but an ongoing process and a continuous struggle.

When a regime takes a strong position against democracy and human dignity, he said, victory remains incomplete.

According to him, the mass uprising of 2024 has issued a historic call to fulfil that incompleteness.