Minority word should not exist in Bangladesh: Farida Akhter
The adviser said HEED Bangladesh is completing its 50 years at a time when a new Bangladesh has been born as a result of the movement of students-workers-masses
Fisheries and Livestock Adviser Farida Akhter said yesterday (5 December) there should not be any word like minority in Bangladesh as one should not differentiate among Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Christians in Bangladesh.
"It is not our job to differentiate among Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Christians in Bangladesh as everyone is citizen of Bangladesh," she told a programme, marking the 50th anniversary of HEED Bangladesh at the Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre in the capital on Thursday evening.
The adviser said HEED Bangladesh is completing its 50 years at a time when a new Bangladesh has been born as a result of the movement of students-workers-masses.
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The children whom HEED Bangladesh is educating will be the ones who will keep HEED Bangladesh alive for a hundred years in the future, she said.
Rev. Byron P. Bonik presided over the function while Senior Secretary of fisheries and livestock ministry M A Akmall Hossain Azad, Health Services Division Secretary Md. Saidur Rahman, Executive Vice Chairman of the Microcredit Regulatory Authority Professor Dr Mohammad Helal Uddin, PKSF Chairman Zakir Ahmed Khan, Acting Managing Director of PKSF Md Fazlul Quader, Archbishop Bejoy Nicephorus D'Cruze, Cardinal Patrick D'Rozario, Executive Director of HEED Bangladesh Anwar Hossain and various representatives of HEED Bangladesh were present at the event.
Earlier, the fisheries and livestock adviser inaugurated the 50th anniversary of HEED Bangladesh by releasing pigeons and balloons and later she cut a cake.
