Religious Minorities
Hunger strike on July 2
Religious and indigenous minorities of Bangladesh will observe a dawn-to-dusk hunger strike on July 2 protesting the parliamentary special committee's recommendations on constitutional amendments.
The leaders of the communities termed the recommendations "religiously discriminatory."
They said they would forge a tougher movement if the proposed amendment of the constitution is passed in parliament keeping "Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim" and Islam as the state religion in it.
Leaders of Bangladesh Hindu Buddha Christian Oikya Parishad, a platform of religious minority groups and Bangladesh Adivasi Forum, a forum of indigenous people, announced this at a press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity.
Maj Gen (retd) CR Dutta and Sanjib Drang, general secretary of Bangladesh Adivasi Forum spoke at the press conference.
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