Pleading for raising voice against any ill-attempt to destroy the country’s inter-communal harmony, Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said their target is to build communal harmony-driven “Sonar Bangla” as dreamt by Father of the Nation resisting all conspiracies.
“Our target is to build “Sonar Bangla” of communal harmony as dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by resisting all conspiracies. No ill attempt to destroy inter-communal harmony will be tolerated in this country of communal harmony,” he said.
The information minister made the comments on Saturday evening while addressing a workshop online on “Building humanitarian nation through moral education: role of pre-primary education project based on pagoda” from his official residence in the city’s Mintu Road, said a press release here on Sunday.
Buddhist Religious Welfare Trust organized the workshop where teacher representatives of 301 schools of the pagoda based education programme of 55 upazilas in 12 districts took part.
“We achieved the independence of Bangladesh by shedding blood of all- Hindu-Muslim-Buddhist-Christian and Mogh-Murung-Chakma. Under the leadership of Bangabandhu’s daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, our government is determined to uphold the non-communal spirit based on which Bangabandhu had built the independent Bangladesh,” Hasan, also Awami League joint general secretary, said.
He also said moral education based on religious places of worship is playing a pivotal role in building a developed nation.
Childhood is the prime time to build a person with a sense of morality, values, patriotism and affection and worship based places including pagoda play an important role to this end, the information minister added.
Buddhist Religious Welfare Trust vice chairmen AL Presidium Member Ramesh Chandra Sen, MP, Aroma Datta, MP, and Supto Bhushan Barua addressed the programme with additional secretary of the Religious Affairs Ministry Dr Moazzem Hossain in the chair.
Basanti Chakma, MP, venerable Lokajit Mohathero and Islamic Foundation director general Anis Mahmud, among others, also addressed it.
