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Hasan urges madrasha teachers-students not to be used in yielding political interest
DHAKA, March 28, 2021 (BSS) – Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today urged the madrasha teachers and students not to be used in yielding political interest of any person or group, saying there was an ill political motive to create anarchy in the country making the Indian premier’s visit as mere an issue.
“The government is determined in tackling any untoward incidents to protect the life of common people and public properties,” he told newsmen at a press briefing at the meeting room of his ministry at Secretariat in the capital.
The minister said the vested quarter staged untoward incidents centering the visit of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Independence Day of the country. But, they didn’t observe the golden jubilee of independence of the country, said Hasan, also Awami League joint general secretary.
He said it is really very condemnable and unacceptable to use innocent children and adolescent boys as the political shields. “I would like to all who are involved with Qawmi madrasha not to be used as weapon as a group is trying to misuse you. Avoid the group and don’t use the children,” he added.
He said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina highly esteems the Alem community. The government of Awami League (AL) has not only given recognition of the certificates of Qawmi Madrasas but also taken steps to provide Qawmi Alems jobs, he added.
Hasan said the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has introduced allowances of Taka 4,500 for Alems at about one lakh mosque-based Maktabs across the country. “Even, many students of Qawmi Madrasha got government jobs also. But, in earlier, no one recognized the Qawmi Madrasha. They only used them,” he added.
The minister said religion and the state as well are not safe in the hands of those who commit crimes like killing of their own emir. “You all know that the family of Hefazat Islam late emir Moulana Ahmed Shafi raised an allegation and lodged a case that the trouble mongers opened the oxygen tubes of Shafi. For this, he was died,” he added.
Replying to a query on recent activities of BNP, Hasan said it is really saddened that BNP indirectly has lent support to the attacks and hartal on the Independence Day while Jamaat supported them directly. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has cleared their position in his yesterday’s press conference, he added.
Replying to another query over a statement of 20 persons, the minister said, “I saw the statement. But, I feel ashamed to call them intellectual as they should give statement against those who created anarchy on the day of golden jubilee of Independence.”
But, Hasan said, they gave statement in favour of those who torched in public properties, land office and police station. They can’t claim themselves as civil society, and they have merged with extremist sectarian groups, he added.
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