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The graffiti highlighting the country's 'July Revolution' painted on the pillars of metro rail from Agargaon to Karwan Bazar was officially inaugurated on Friday.
Local Government Rural Development & Cooperatives Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain inaugurated the artwork at a ceremony held bellow the Agargaon Metro Rail Station in the capital.
DNCC Administrator Mohammad Azaz presided over the event, a DNCC statement said.
Shojib Bhuyain said these graffiti will repeatedly remind the country's people of the dark days of the authoritarian rule of the Awami League and the courageous resistance of the people.
"They (graffiti) will play a crucial role in ensuring that no autocratic regime can ever rise again in this country," he said. Azaz said this graffiti initiative was undertaken with the aim of preserving national unity on the issue of fascism.
The main purpose of this project was to portray the rise and fall of the fascist regime that ruled for the past 15 years.
According to DNCC, under the theme 'The Language of Walls: Memory, Resistance, and People's History', the art works present a powerful visual narrative of the historic student-people uprising of July 2024, and the cultural and political resistance that rose against fascist rule.
Through these paintings, the terrifying chapter of political repression in Bangladesh from 2009 to 2024, and scenes from the 36-day popular uprising of July 2024-marches, clashes, arrests, sacrifices-have been portrayed, the DNCC said.
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