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Bangladesh land of communal harmony: Dr Shirin
DHAKA, Oct 19, 2018 (BSS) – Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin
Chaudhury has said Bangladesh is a land of communal harmony as the people of
all faiths are living in the country peacefully for a long time.
“We want to build a non-communal Bangladesh in line with the spirit of the
Liberation War,” she told a function yesterday organized by Sarbojanin Puja
Foundation at Banani in the city on the occasion of Durga Puja, the biggest
religious festival of the Hindu community, an official release said today.
Dr Shirin said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
dreamt of building non-communal Bangladesh, where the people of different
religious beliefs would live peacefully.
She said Durga Puja is attached to the traditional heritage and culture of
Bangla. “Apart from festivity, Durga Puja plays an important role in creating
unity and mutual sympathy among the countrymen,” the Speaker said.
She said the country will be able to materialize the ‘Vision 2021’ and
‘Vision 2041’ with collective efforts through maintaining the Bangalee’s
thousand-year-old bond of communal harmony.
BSS/PR/MMR/ARS/1825 hrs