Referendum please
The partition of Bengal in 1905 was based on religion. In 1947 the predominantly Muslim half of Bengal became East Pakistan and the predominantly Hindu part became the Indian state of West Bengal. Nearly 92% of the population of Bangladesh believes in the Quran and the Sunna, yet due to trepidation of its harmoniously large Hindu dominated neighbours, they hesitate to express today their democratic right to religion. Even the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, favouring Islam to be the state religion and ensuring equal rights to other religions, hesitate to retain Bismillah-Ar-Rahman-Ar-Rahim above the preamble of the constitution.
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