Vow to resist move to change names of 2 Moulvibazar villages

The villages are Mustafapur and Pagulia.

The villagers have formed two separate action committees to resist the moves. The committees are named as Mustafapur Tradition Protection Committee and Resistance Committee to Change Name of Pagulia Village. The formation of the committees were announced at joint press conference held at Moulvibazar Pourashava auditorium on Tuesday.

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Saiful Haque Chowdhury and Nurul Huda Quraishi, two conveners of the action committees and Syed Kamal Ahmed Babu Labour Affairs Secretary of Moulvibazar district BNP addressed the press conference. Over 100 people of Mustafapur and Pagulia villages attended the press conference.

Leaders of the action committees disclosed that the upazila administration has taken the move to change the names of Mustafapur and Pagulia villages, according to an application submitted by Syed Sawkat Ali and 87 of his associates. They proposed Islambagh as new name of the villages. They condemned the move and blamed the UNO of Moulvibazar Sadar upazila for it. More than hundreds of years back the names of Mustafapur village was kept after the name of Hajrat Syed Shah Mustafa Bagdadi (RA) one of the 360 Awlias of Hazrat Shajalal (RA) of Sylhet. They said the name of Pagulia village was renamed after the name of Pagol Awlia Hazrat Shah Jamal (RA) who lived in the village. So villagers irrespective of religious faith love the name of two villages. They will resist any such unholy move, they declared.