File photograph. Photograph: Reuters
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State Minister for Non secular Affairs Faridul Haque Khan on Sunday advised Parliament {that a} whole of 1,981 folks had been despatched to Saudi Arabia to carry out the holy hajj on the authorities’s price since 2014.
He stated this replying to a tabled query from Awami League lawmaker Didarul Alam after the day’s sitting of the Home began with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury within the chair within the afternoon.
The state minister nevertheless stated none was despatched to hajj in 2020 and 2021 as a consequence of Covid-19 pandemic.
In 2014, the federal government began a programme to ship a sure variety of Muslims to Saudi Arabia for performing hajj at lowest bundle worth, he stated
Amongst 1,918 who carried out hajj at authorities price, 125 folks had been despatched in 2014, 268 in 2015, 283 in 2016, 334 in 2017, 340 in 2018, 314 in 2019 and 254 in 2022.