Bangladesh: Minority groups from Chattogram march to Dhaka demanding rights, security

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Bangladesh: Minority groups from Chattogram march to Dhaka demanding rights, security​

ByAIR News
January 8, 2023
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The largest minority organization of the country Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Oikya Parishad completed its march to Dhaka from Chattogram on Saturday. The Oikya Parishad Presidium member Kajal Debnath said that they handed over a memorandum to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after the police stopped the march on Shahbagh intersection from proceeding further.

The memorandum put forward a number of demands including the enactment of the minorities protection act, formation of a separate ministry for the minority communities and national commission of minorities. It also demanded that the government should enact laws against discrimination, interstate property conservation act and properly implement the entrusted property transfer act and the Chattogram Hill Tracts peace accord.

Earlier, speakers at the rally held at Suhrawardy Udyan near the Ramna Kali Mandir in Dhaka urged the ruling Awami League to fulfil its promises to the minority community as contained in its election manifesto of 2018.

Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Oikya Parishad General Secretary Rana Dasgupta said that the secular constitution of the country was transformed into a communal one and Islam was declared the state religion in 1988. Rana Dasgupta said that many religious-ethnic minorities were forced to emigrate from Bangladesh due to oppression and discrimination faced by them.

The Parishad announced that a torchlight procession will be organised across all upazilas, union and districts of Bangladesh on 24 February to give impetus to the demands of the religions and ethnic minority groups of the country.

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[Abu Shaleh Rumi]

Bangladesh exist because of Islam. If anyone has any problem with Islam, leave this country...

BTW, except people with disability nobody can ask and get any special treatment from the state. Equal rights and opportunity for all...

 

[El Sidd]

Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Oikya Parishad General Secretary Rana Dasgupta said that the secular constitution of the country was transformed into a communal one and Islam was declared the state religion in 1988. Rana Dasgupta said that many religious-ethnic minorities were forced to emigrate from Bangladesh due to oppression and discrimination faced by them.

There are no working provisions deliberated by religion in the Bangladeshi constitution that can be perceived as communal, however, the name Bangladesh appears many times and its quite a communal word with quite a communal history.

Strange things happen there

 

[Destranator]

While at it, I suggest they also demand free laundry and dry cleaning services during monsoon - a more logical demand.

There are no working provisions deliberated by religion in the Bangladeshi constitution that can be perceived as communal, however, the name Bangladesh appears many times and its quite a communal word with quite a communal history.

Strange things happen there

Bangladesh has a fundamentally secular constitution (if one actually studies it) - an Islamic label was slapped on top by Ershad afterwards to pander to conservatives and Gulfies. The constitution gives no material privileges to any religion including Islam. The constitution is best left as it is to prevent stirring the pot.
This minority group has to just suck it up.

 

[El Sidd]

Bangladesh has a fundamentally secular constitution (if one actually studies it) - an Islamic label was slapped on top by Ershad afterwards to pander to conservatives and Gulfies. The constitution gives no material privileges to any religion including Islam. The constitution is best left as it is to prevent stirring the pot.

I don't think Bangladeshis are well versed in their own constitution but do have a grasp of the penal code of the country.

This minority group has to just suck it up.

They don't have to suck at anything. All they have to do is now rally to change the country's name as that is pretty communal. The non Bengalis in Bangladesh face issues governed by communal realities of the country regardless of the religion they may follow.