|| Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today said the July-August Movement became successful because the people wanted change, asserting that its success belonged to the country’s people rather than any individual or political party.“The movement that took place in Bangladesh during July and August was entirely a people’s movement. The July Movement succeeded because the people wanted change. The movement succeeded only when the people became fully involved in it,” he said.The Prime Minister was addressing a discussion titled “Seventeen Years of Relentless Struggle for Democracy and the Bloodstained July Awakening”, organized by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) at the Institution of Diploma Engineers in the capital this afternoon.Tarique Rahman, also Chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), said people from all walks of life made the movement successful through their active participation.He said, “We have made our position absolutely clear that the credit for the success of the July Movement belongs to the people of this country. It is not the achievement of any individual or any single political party.”The Prime Minister said people of the country, BNP leaders and activists and many other political parties that believe in democracy had remained on the streets over the past 17 years in the movement against fascism.“We never left the field. We never abandoned the people by walking away from the field,” he said. Calling upon all political parties to focus on rebuilding the country, Tarique Rahman said enough discussions, movements, struggles and debates had taken place.“Now is the time to rebuild the country. Now is the time to move the nation forward. Now is the time to remain patient and vigilant against those who seek to hatch conspiracies,” he said.The Prime Minister continued, “We must alert the people and gradually implement the commitments we have made to them for rebuilding the country. We must fulfill the people's aspirations.”