Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury on Friday said neither a woman nor Islam is safe in the hands of Hefajat-e-Islam ameer Allama Ahmed Shafi.
“He (Shafi) considers a woman tamarind. So, women are not safe in his hands… even Islam isn’t safe,” she said while addressing a rally after distributing warm clothes among students and elderly persons at Beltail Bazar in Nalitabari upazila.
Matia said this locality is a place of communal harmony. “But many people will try to carry out propaganda using religion during the next general election.”
Claiming that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been working for Islam, she said Hasina increased the salaries of clerics and madrasah teachers. “And none but Hasina passed a law to set up an Arabic university in the country, which is a core demand of Islamic clerics of the Indian subcontinent for the last 78 years.”
The agriculture minister also depicted the picture of development she carried out in her constituency.
