Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said that there would be no place for secessionists and militants in the Bangladeshi soil.
“Bangladesh will be made a peaceful and developed country by combating militants at any cost,” he said while speaking as the chief guest at an event in Supreme Court Bar Association auditorium organised by Saarc Cultural Society marking the Moitree Festival 2015.
Indian Lok Shabha member and former central minister Professor Shaugat Roy, opposition leader of Tripura legislative assembly Shudip Roy Burman, former legislator from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Advocate Arun Kanti Bhowmik, Indian journalist Tarun Chakravarty, Nakul Chandra Saha of Bangladesh Hindu-Buddha-Christian Welfare Front Dhaka city unit and General Secretary Shujan Dey spoke on the occasion with society President Syed Abu Hossain Babla, MP, in chair.
The home minister said: “Friendship and love should not be hindered by barbed-wire fences. Our neighbour India, which stood beside Bangladesh’s development process since the country’s independence, will always stand beside us.”
Referring to the killing of two foreign nationals, Kamal said the mystery of the murders would be unearthed before the nation soon as those who were involved with the grisly murders had already been identified.
The home minister said those who organised the grenade attack at Hossaini Dalan were cohorts of war criminals and other anti-liberation elements.
Professor Shaugat Roy said that irrespective of political parties, successive Indian governments had been friendly towards Bangladesh. He paid glowing tributes to Bangabandhu and the Language Martyrs.
Representatives of different regions of India and different districts of Bangladesh participated in the cultural function.
