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Awami League Secretary General and Minister of Road Transport and Bridges, Obaidul Quader, has said that a powerful communal group has spoken out against the powerful medium of art, sculpture. “They are trying to spread hatred in the minds of religious people by misinterpreting Islam,” he said.
Obaidul Quader said this at the opening performance of the 22nd New Artists Exhibition organized by the Shilpakala Academy of Bangladesh on Monday afternoon. He attended the event via videoconference from his official residence.
The bridge minister said: ‘Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was a poet of politics, he was immortal in speech and eloquence. Bangabandhu was the artist of the blood of the Bengal people. He was the bearer and bearer of the Bengali culture.
Obaidul Quader said: ‘Bangabandhu repaired the broken culture bridge and built an intact bridge. On the occasion of the Mujib Year, the objective statement of the extremist communal group on the sculpture of Bangabandhu, the architect of independent Bangladesh, is a challenge to the heritage and culture of this country. ‘
The Secretary General of the Awami League said: “The government will crack down on any attempt to destroy religious tolerance by bringing religious issues to the fore without finding any other way or issue.”
“There is no compromise on this issue,” he said. Asking people not to think that the simplicity of government is weak, he cautioned that any statement against the spirit of the liberation war and liberation war, the constitution and the state will not be tolerated.
Shilpakala Academy Director General Liaquat Ali Lucky chaired the performance. The Minister of State for Culture, KM Khalid, the Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, Abdul Mannan Ilias, the painter Sahid Kabir and the director of the Shilpakala Academy, Syeda Mahbuba Karim, were also present on the occasion.
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