Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the Hindu community not to consider them as the members of minority community, rather they should lead their life, enjoying equal rights here in Bangladesh.
“Why would you call yourselves a minority? ..... There is nothing like minority and majority here. Rather, all citizens will live here enjoying equal rights. Don’t undermine yourselves as a minority. Why are you doing so when you are the people of this country?” she said.
The prime minister said this while exchanging greetings with the Hindu community on her official residence Ganabhaban’s premises on the occasion of the holy Janmashtami.
Pointing at the Hindu community people, she said those who were born on this soil, they are the children of this soil and they have rights as the citizens of this soil. “So, you will live accordingly,” she said.
The PM said her government always tries to maintain religious and communal harmony in Bangladesh and keep a social solidarity where one won’t undermine another and all the people will lead life enjoying equal rights.
“We know there are some vested people everywhere, who want to create some problems. All will have to pay attention so that none can create the problems,” she said.
Hasina said some people are here in the country, who malign Bangladesh going abroad. “I would like to request all to be alert in this regard,” she said.
Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder, State Minister for Religious Affairs Md Faridul Haque Khan and State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Swapan Bhattacharjee, among others, spoke on the occasion.
