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Bangladesh seethes with religious tension over founding father s statue
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Religious populism is showing its teeth to the secular Awami League-led government and this time, the upcoming statue of Bangladesh s founding father is at stake.
The construction of a sculpture of Bangladesh’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the capital Dhaka has recently stirred up a political storm, pitting the South Asian nation’s Islamist groups against the secularists.
It started when Maolana Mamunul Haque, a leader of Hefazat-e-Islam, one of Bangladesh’s largest Islamic groups, asked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to halt the plan of erecting Rahman s statue in Dhaka.