Desk Reports :
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has said that if BNP comes to power, it will enact timely laws for the safety of animals. He made these comments virtually at a discussion meeting at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Center in the capital on Saturday (September 13) afternoon.
Tarique Rahman said, ‘Just as democracy has a relationship with human rights, so has the relationship between the rights of animals and wild animals with the ecosystem. If democracy and integrity are established in state politics, the ecosystem will be safe in reality.’
The BNP Acting Chairman also said, ‘For more than a decade and a half, a kind of intolerance may have arisen in the minds of many of us due to the loss of all democratic political rights as a person and a citizen. To overcome this intolerance and become a humane person, our commitment should be to achieve humanity and abandon animality. If we as humans can ensure our rights in the state and society, we will be more careful and careful about protecting the rights of all other animals.’
This discussion meeting was held in the afternoon at the day-long ‘Animal and Life Fair’ organized by the ‘Bangladesh Animal Welfare Association’. BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman was the patron. Amateur animal lovers brought their pets to this fair. ‘May the country be a safe habitat for all animals’—under the slogan, animal lover Shahina Khan Zaman and recently deceased school teacher Akash Koli Das were honored at the event.
Tareque Rahman said, ‘There are many laws in the country on related issues including the Animal Welfare Act 2019, the Wildlife Conservation and Safety Act, the Biodiversity Protection Act, the Environmental Development Act, the Climate Change Trust Act. If BNP gets the opportunity to run the state by the verdict of the people, we will make these laws timely for the safety of animals, birds, wild animals and the ecosystem.
Presided over by the convener of the organizing organization, Adnan Azad, and jointly moderated by Mustakim Billah and Lova Ahmed, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Treasurer Rashiduzzaman Millat, Poet Abdul Hai Sikder, Vice Chancellor of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Professor Abdul Latif, Professor of Zoology Department of Jahangirnagar University Monowar Hossain Tuhin, former national cricket captain Tamim Iqbal Khan, actress Irene Sultana, National Zoo curator Atiqur Rahman Mithu and many others spoke at the discussion.
Welcoming this initiative, Tarique Rahman said, “Today’s discussion on animal welfare, organized by some animal lovers who have come out of the political turmoil of the country, is certainly a meaningful and very good initiative.”
