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The Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives said that the constitution of Bangladesh has equal rights for citizens of all religions.\u00a0Tajul Islam said, in the great liberation war of 1971, we fought to establish equal rights for all irrespective of caste and religion.\u00a0<\/span> Staff correspondent: The Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives said that the constitution of Bangladesh has equal rights for citizens of all religions.\u00a0Tajul Islam said, in the great liberation war of 1971, we fought to establish equal rights for all irrespective of caste and religion.\u00a0 He said, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman united the Bengali nation against all unjust oppression and deprivation.\u00a0One of the fundamental principles of our constitution is secularism which guarantees the rights of all religions. The minister said this while addressing the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3740,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions\/3740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHe said, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman united the Bengali nation against all unjust oppression and deprivation.\u00a0One of the fundamental principles of our constitution is secularism which guarantees the rights of all religions.<\/span>
\nThe minister said this while addressing the chief guest at the auspicious inauguration of Sarvajanan Sharidiya Durgotsav organized by Baridhara DOHS Puja Committee of Dhaka today.\u00a0Colonel (retd) Farooq Khan, Member of Parliament and Presidium member of Bangladesh Awami League, was present as a special guest.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe local government minister pointed out that no religion teaches contempt, neglect and disrespect to any other religion and said that some miscreants deceive simple people for political gain by misinterpreting religion.\u00a0Urging to beware of religious divisives, the Minister said that equal participation of people of all religions and castes is necessary to build a developed Bangladesh by 2041.\u00a0<\/span>
\nAt this time, he was inspired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s principle of “Dharma ja jaa za var shar” and wished for the all-round success of the Durga Puja festival.<\/span>
\nTajul Islam called on everyone to be vigilant about spreading religious hatred through all social media including Facebook and said that any information on social media cannot be trusted without confirmation.\u00a0<\/span>
\nNoting that Islam never asks to attack other religions, he said, religious tolerance is one of the beauties of Islam.\u00a0There is no such thing as majority or minority in Bangladesh, our biggest identity is that we are people and we are Bangladeshis.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"