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Nat'l Unity Amid Indian Media Campaign Against BD

CA holds talks with political parties today, meets religious organizations tomorrow

Published : Wednesday, 4 December, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 185
Chief Adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus is going to hold dialogues with the main political parties, students and religious leaders to call for 'national unity' amidst the ongoing situation of the country.

"The main aim of the two meetings is forging national unity. He (the chief adviser) will call for national unity," Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam said on Tuesday at a media briefing at the Foreign Service Academy here.

About the importance of national unity, the press secretary said unity is very important now as the Indian media is deliberately carrying out a misinformation campaign against Bangladesh.

"We must resist the misinformation campaign unitedly," he added.

"The goal of these meetings is for the CA to call for national unity," Alam added.

As part of the dialogues, the chief adviser will meet the country's major political parties tomorrow (4 December), the next day, he will sit with religious leaders, however, he sat with the student leaders at Jamuna on the same issue, the press secretary said, however, he did not elaborate.

He said the chief adviser also invited the leaders of religious groups to join a dialogue with him on Thursday.

Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus to hold a series of meetings with leaders from different communities - students, political parties and religious groups - to strengthen national unity amid the ongoing misinformation against Bangladesh in Indian media.

He said that misinformation campaigns targeting Bangladesh are being actively propagated by Indian media, which he accused of inciting violence through their reporting.

"We are inviting global media, including outlets from India, to visit Bangladesh and witness the situation firsthand," he added.

Amid growing tensions between two close neighbours, Bangladesh and India on Tuesday affirmed commitment to have a friendly relationship considering the existing "multifaceted and wide-ranging" relations.

Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam, at a separate briefing at the Foreign Service Academy, said India is a big neighbour and Bangladesh wants good relations with the neighbour. "But we think this good relationship should be based on just and equity."

Replying to a question, CA's Press Secretary said Bangladesh is following due diplomatic process and the government is doing whatever is necessary.

The government of Bangladesh on Monday said it "deeply resents" the "violent demonstration and attack" by a large group of protesters of the Hindu Sangharsh Samity of Agartala on the premises of the Assistant High Commission of Bangladesh in Agartala.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement, underlined that this "heinous attack" on a diplomatic mission of Bangladesh and desecration of the national flag of Bangladesh comes in a pattern, further to a similar violent demonstration in Kolkata on November 24, 2024.

"This particular act in Agartala stands in violation of the inviolability of diplomatic missions, as the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961, asks for," the ministry said.

"We conveyed our concerns to India. Our MoFA (Ministry of Foreign affairs) is working accordingly," CA's Press Secretary Alam said.

CA's Deputy Press Secretaries Apurba Jahangir and Abul Kalam Azad Majumder were present.



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