BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman here today made a humble request to the followers of Sanatan religious community to remain vigilant so that vested quarters cannot use their religious identity for their own interest in the future.
The BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman made the call while speaking virtually as chief guest at the biennial conference of Shree Shree Janmashtami Udjapan Parishad Bangladesh Central Committee at city’s JM Sen Hall this afternoon.
If the followers of Sanatan religious community were able to realize the hard fact that they were used politically during the last 17 years, it will be an important realization from their side, the BNP acting chairman added.
BNP standing committee member and former minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury was the main speaker at the function. Parishad’s chief of election management committee Professor Pradeep Kumar Chakraborty presided over it.
Referring to the Lord Shree Krishna, Tarique Rahman said Lord Shree Krishna was born in Mathura about five and a half thousand years ago at a time when the cruel ruler of Mathura, Kamsa was in power.
“For more than a decade, a brutal dictator like Kamsa had been weighing down over the people of Bangladesh like a weighty rock. The brutal, genocidal dictator, who was like a giant, fled Bangladesh on August 5 last year on the face of mass uprising of the democratic-minded people, regardless of party, opinion, religion and caste,” he added.
The BNP acting chairman said, "Minority or majority is just a word to determine the character and characteristics of the population of a country, nothing more. In this Bangladesh, regardless of religion and caste, Bengali or non-Bengali, believer or non-believer or every citizen of Bangladesh has the same identity, we are Bangladeshis. So, every citizen of Bangladesh is eligible to enjoy equal rights in all areas. This is the policy of BNP, this is the politics of BNP.”
He said BNP believed that party-opinion, religion-philosophy belongs to everyone, but the state belongs to everyone."
“Everyone has the right to security regardless of religion. The upcoming national election is a great opportunity for all of us to build a safe Bangladesh. BNP seeks your support and cooperation to use this opportunity to build a safe democratic country for everyone,
regardless of religion or caste,” Tarique Rahman said, adding that although the mentor of the dictatorship had fled, democracy is not yet out of danger .
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