Call off Dec 26 hartal
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday urged the ulemas to withdraw the December 26 hartal saying that the government would discuss with Sammilito Ulema Mashayek Parishad if it withdraws the hartal.
"Withdraw the hartal considering sufferings of the people. The issue can be discussed," he said while addressing at a representative conference of Bangladesh Jamaitul Moderesin at its complex in the city's Mohakhali.
Around 10,000 teachers and employees of madrasa attended the conference where they rejected the hartal saying that they are not with the alem and ulemas who called the hartal for political gain.
Sammilito Ulema Mashayek Parishad, an anti-government forum of religion-based political leaders, called a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal for December 26 if the government doesn't comply with their recommendations regarding the national education policy within this time.
The minister said the education policy has been formulated maintaining the unique features of madrasa education.
He also said the parishad had discussed with him with their recommendation which were realised, but now the parishad announced the hartal.
"Please don't harm the nation by calling hartal," he said.
State Minister for Housing and Public Works Abdul Mannan Khan; Golam Mawla Rony MP; Directorate General of Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education Prof Noman-ur-Rashid; Madrasa Education Board Chairman Prof Abdun Nur; and Bangladesh Jamaitul Moderesin President and Editor of Daily Inqilab AMM Bahuddin also spoke.
Meanwhile, Sammilito Islamic Jote yesterday rejected the hartal called by Sammilito Ulama Mashayekh Parishad on next Sunday and urged the countrymen to resist it.
Jote leaders and activists rejected the programme at a protest rally at the city's Muktangon.
Terming the pro-hartal forces as fundamentalists and war criminals, they said the anti-liberation forces are trying to hatch conspiracy to make the country unstable and foil trial of war criminals.
Organisation President Ziaul Hasan presided over the function, while a number of senior leaders spoke.
Speaking as the chief guest Prime Minister's Education Adviser Dr Alauddin Ahmed said not a single word can be found in the policy that may dishonour religious feelings of the people. So, there is no logical ground to call hartal centering the policy, he said.
Two other organisations -- Bangladesh Non-Government Primary School Teachers' Association and Bangladesh Ulema-Mashayakh Federation also rejected the hartal.
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