Dhaka:
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the country’s Hindu community not to consider itself a minority. He also said that this country belongs to all classes irrespective of caste, creed and religion as he fought for the freedom of the country against Pakistani forces in 1971. “Why do you call yourself a minority?” Hasina said while interacting with prominent leaders of the Hindu community on the occasion of Janmashtami at her official residence Gano Bhavan here. …there is no such thing as minority and majority.
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Hasina said, ‘Don’t consider yourself a minority and feel weak… when you are the people of this country, why are you doing this?’ He said that people who are born in this soil are the children of this soil and they have civil rights. Prime Minister Hasina said, ‘I want you all to practice your religion properly.’ At the same time, he called for continued vigilance against any move to disturb the religious harmony of the country and spread propaganda against its progress. Hindus are the second largest religious community in Bangladesh after Muslims. Then there are Buddhists and Christians.
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