'Repeal 15th amendment to constitution'
Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP) yesterday demanded the government to repeal fifteenth amendment to the constitution to restore non-communal spirit of 1972 constitution.
Expressing deep concern over the amendment to the constitution, BMP leaders, in a statement, said although four national principles--nationalism, socialism, democracy and secularism--have been restored by the fifteenth amendment, Islam has been retained as the state religion.
"Religion is solely a personal matter of people. State can never have any religion," observed BMP leaders in the statement.
The spirit of non-communal and democratic equality of the constitution of 1972, achieved through the Liberation War, has been destroyed due to retaining Islam as the state religion in the constitution, the statement reads.
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