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Dutta urges Delhi to ‘press Dhaka stop minority persecution’

By Staff Correspondent
Major General (Retd) Chitta Ranjan Dutta Thursday accused the government of persecuting the minority communities In the country in the Rohingya style.'
Dutta then called upon the Indian government to arrange shelters for the refugees, prepare list* and press Bangladesh government for an honourable return of the refugees '
Tnc President of the Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist Christian Solidarity Council was speaking at the Inaugural function of the Council's trlen-nial national conference at the Institution of Engineers in Dhaka
He urged the donor countries to pul pressure on the government to spend one-third of the foreign aid for the development of the Hindu, Buddhist and Christian communities in Bangladesh.
'Like the Rohingyas tn Burma (Myanmar), houses of the minority communities in Bangladesh are being set ablaze, their lands taken with forged documents resulting in thousands fleeing to India for shelter and to escape persecution," General Dutta said.
"Do not leave Bangladesh ... if the situation arises we, the three crore members of the minority communities will leave home en masse." he said.
Presided over by T Rozario, the inaugural function was also addressed by Begum Sajeda Chowdhury, Rashed Khan Menon, Shudhangsu Shekhar Halder. Nurul Islam Nahid, A F M Mahbubul Huq. Dilip Barua, SuranJU Sengupta, Kader Siddiqui. Maulana Muhammad Iqbal Yusuf, Prof Kabir Chowdhury, Faiz Ahmed. Alhaj Syed Najibul Bashar MalJbhandari, Prof Ahmed Sharif, Azlzul Islam Khan. Maulana Ahmedur Rahman Azmi, Alhaj Abdus Samad, Justice K M Subhan and Srecmat Bodhlpal Mahathcro.
Former Chief Justice Kcmaluddin Hossain attended the function as chief guest.
Poet Sufia Kamal inaugurated the conference.
Sufia Kamal called upon the people of the country to work unitedly for eliminating com-
She also pointed out to the Council leaders to include the word Muslim’ in the name of the organisation.
Justice Kcmaluddin Hossain 1n his speech said that the time had arrived to educate the people about the role of religion in the democratic state and urged all to shun politics of religion and communal ism.
Awami League General Secretary Sajeda Chowdhury criticised the government for filing 'framed charges' against the organisers of the public trial of Goiam Azam.
Rashed Khan Menon in his speech said that no state could move forward with contradlc tions tn the basic principles of national life.
Kader Siddiqui In his speech said It was natural that the minority communities In any country felt some kind of mental pressure from the ma Jority but that all of them were united on the basic state prin clples.