Muslim-majority Bangladesh to drop Islam as state religion for strategic reasons ‘when time comes’

Muslim-majority Bangladesh to drop Islam as the country’s state religion ‘when the time comes’, a report on Monday quoted a senior ruling Awami Leage leader as saying. “Islam has been kept as the state religion for strategic reasons,” the party’s Presidium Member and former minister Abdur Razzaq told the media on Sunday. “I have said it abroad and now I am saying it again that Islam will be dropped (as state religion) from Bangladesh’s Constitution when the time comes,” the former food minister added.
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