Sunday, 09 March, 2025
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has urged the followers of the Sanatan religious community to remain vigilant against efforts by vested interests to exploit their religious identity for political gain.
Rahman made this appeal while virtually addressing the biennial conference of the Shree Shree Janmashtami Udjapan Parishad Bangladesh Central Committee at JM Sen Hall in the capital on Friday. He emphasized that if the Sanatan community recognizes how they have been politically manipulated over the past 17 years, it would mark a significant turning point.
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 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 .
Tarique Rahman said that the conspirators are out to make the interim government failure. The cohorts of the fugitive dictatorship are constantly trying to appear in the scene with various tactics, he added.
“Democracy is not free from risk until a parliament and government will be formed by the people's representatives, which is accountable to the people and elected through direct vote by the people” he said.
He said if every minority-centric incident in the country during the one and a half decade of ousted dictatorship is closely investigated, it will become clear that all the attacks were either politically motivated or mighty people came down on weaker section out of greed and lust.
BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said, “You know that extreme division, unrest, and joy were prevailing simultaneously in the country after Sheikh Hasina fled the country.”
“I don't know how many of you heard a speech by Tarique Rahman at that time. The BNP acting Chairman said that the joy of victory of those who win in a war will fade if the security of the losers cannot be ensured”, Amir Khasru said, adding that “ A nation will never be able to move forward if it fails to ensure the safety and security of defeated people and these are the thoughts, philosophy and expectation of BNP politics”.
He said the nation had seen the politics of division based on religion, ethnicity or political in past years, which was simply for out of gaining individual or party interest, adding, “Today’s presence of Tarique Rahman here is very important to fulfill the aspiration of the people to come out from such situation.”
City Mayor Dr. Shahadat Hossain, BNP Chattogram Divisional Organizing Secretary Mahabuber Rahman Shamim, City BNP Convener Ershad Ullah, City BNP former General Secretary Abul Hashem Bakkar, Shree Umeshananda Giri Maharaj and BNP International Affairs Sub-Committee Member Israfil Mahmud Chowdhury, among others, spoke as special guests at the event.
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BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has urged the followers of the Sanatan religious community to remain vigilant against efforts by vested interests to exploit their religious identity for political gain.
Rahman made this appeal while virtually addressing the biennial conference of the Shree Shree Janmashtami Udjapan Parishad Bangladesh Central Committee at JM Sen Hall in the capital on Friday. He emphasized that if the Sanatan community recognizes how they have been politically manipulated over the past 17 years, it would mark a significant turning point.
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 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 .
Tarique Rahman said that the conspirators are out to make the interim government failure. The cohorts of the fugitive dictatorship are constantly trying to appear in the scene with various tactics, he added.
“Democracy is not free from risk until a parliament and government will be formed by the people's representatives, which is accountable to the people and elected through direct vote by the people” he said.
He said if every minority-centric incident in the country during the one and a half decade of ousted dictatorship is closely investigated, it will become clear that all the attacks were either politically motivated or mighty people came down on weaker section out of greed and lust.
BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said, “You know that extreme division, unrest, and joy were prevailing simultaneously in the country after Sheikh Hasina fled the country.”
“I don't know how many of you heard a speech by Tarique Rahman at that time. The BNP acting Chairman said that the joy of victory of those who win in a war will fade if the security of the losers cannot be ensured”, Amir Khasru said, adding that “ A nation will never be able to move forward if it fails to ensure the safety and security of defeated people and these are the thoughts, philosophy and expectation of BNP politics”.
He said the nation had seen the politics of division based on religion, ethnicity or political in past years, which was simply for out of gaining individual or party interest, adding, “Today’s presence of Tarique Rahman here is very important to fulfill the aspiration of the people to come out from such situation.”
City Mayor Dr. Shahadat Hossain, BNP Chattogram Divisional Organizing Secretary Mahabuber Rahman Shamim, City BNP Convener Ershad Ullah, City BNP former General Secretary Abul Hashem Bakkar, Shree Umeshananda Giri Maharaj and BNP International Affairs Sub-Committee Member Israfil Mahmud Chowdhury, among others, spoke as special guests at the event.
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