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The meeting started at the home of the interior minister in Dhanmondi at around 9pm on Monday and lasted for about two hours.
Senior Interior Ministry public relations official Sharif Mahmud Apu told bdnews24.com that a 12-member delegation led by Maulana Mahmudul Hasan, Chairman of the Qaumi Madrasa Befaq Board, attended the meeting. The interior minister will brief reporters on the details of the meeting at the secretariat on Tuesday.
When asked what was discussed, he said: “The general situation of the country and sculpture were discussed in the meeting.”
Leaders of Hefazat-e-Islam, an alliance of organizations focused on Qaumi Madrasa, began to oppose the initiative taken to install a sculpture of Bangabandhu at Dholairpara in Dhaka in the year of Mujib. Hefazat’s deputy general secretary, Mamunul Haque, threatened to throw the sculpture at the Buriganga if it was done. Hefazat Amir Junaid Babungari then threatened to tear down anyone’s sculpture at a religious gathering in Chittagong.
The lords of Qaumi want ‘Mujib Minar’ instead of sculpture
In protest, various political parties and social, cultural and professional organizations, writers and teachers, artists and literary figures took to the streets.
In this situation, leading academics from the Qawmi madrasas sat in a discussion at the Jatrabari madrasa in Dhaka on December 5 under the leadership of BEFAC President Mahmudul Hasan.
It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving office.
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