, Aug. 23 -- BNP Standing Committee member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Saturday said it would be a 'serious mistake' to think that young people alone can build Bangladesh.

"The country was not built only by a few students of Dhaka city or Dhaka University but with the participation of disadvantaged people from villages, rickshaw-pullers and other ordinary citizens. Their thoughts, aspirations and thirst for democracy and economic emancipation cannot be ignored in the process of nation-building," he said.

The BNP leader was speaking at the launching ceremony of a book' titled 'Politics of Tarique Rahman: The Sublimity of Mass Uprising '. at the Jatiya Press Club.

He said young people always played a vital role at the forefront of movements ...