Dhaka, April 26: The home minister, Sahara Khatun, on Monday asked lawmakers of the Dhaka city to hold open discussions with imams of mosques and madrasshah teachers for creating mass awareness about the National Women Development Policy 2011.
The minister made the directives at a meeting with the Members of Parliament from the constituencies of the Dhaka city at the secretariat against the backdrop of the ongoing movement, led by Islami Oikya Jote chairman Fazlul Haq Amini, demanding cancellation of the National Women Development Policy on the ground that it was anti-Islamic.
Amini is leading the movement under the banner of Islami Ain Bastabayan Committee.
Talking to New Age, a number of lawmakers said the main agenda of the meeting was how to find out the ways for countering the ongoing 'propaganda' against the women development policy spread by a section of Islamic clerics.
The prime minister's adviser on establishment ministry and administrative affairs HT Imam also held a meeting with some Islamic intellectuals loyal to Awami League and discussed how to counter the movement against the policy.
Source: New Age
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