Ganotantric
Jubo Forum (Democratic Youth Forum)
Ganotantric Jobo Forum was founded by progressive Jumma youths
on April 5, 2002. Initially it was named Pahari Jubo Forum.
However, the second central council session of the organisation
held on 13 May 2005 in Chittagong unanimously changed its
name to Ganotantric Jubo Forum or Democratic Youth Forum.
The overriding aim of the organisation is
to provide a common platform for all the Jumma youths and
contribute to the struggle for the right to self-determination.
Ganotantric Jubo Forum successfully held
its first conference in April 2003 in Khagrachari. More than
five hundred youth delegates from across the Chittagong Hill
Tracts as well as from Dhaka and Chittagong took part in it.
In a leaflet issued on the occasion of its
1st Founding anniversary the Ganotantric Jubo Forum declares:
it will not tolerate the government or any quarter backed
by it playing game with the destiny of the people of the Chittagong
Hill Tracts. It sends stern warnings to those who are involved
with anti social and anti national activities in order to
maintain their personal and sectional interests, and calls
upon those who have been seduced into such activities or got
involved by sheer chances, to forsake their bad company and
come back to normal social life.
The Forum has a number of branch committees
across the Chittagong Hill Tracts as well as in Dhaka and
Chittagong.
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