Weekly holiday
I fully endorse the letter of Rezaul Huq from Lalmatia entitled "Weekly holiday and man hour wastage" published in the letter column of your newspaper. I wish the present BNP coalition government realised the importance of working on Friday with an hour break for the mandatory prayer for the Muslims as it is practised in many other countries. I quote the PM and Mr. Abdul Mannan Bhuyian, "We are a Moderate Muslim Country" not an Islamic Republic like Pakistan or Iran. Since we are a moderate Muslim Country with only 85% of the entire population being Muslims, we can easily switch over from Friday to Sunday as our weekly holiday. I am sure the change will help the present and future governments to help Bangladesh come out of the number one position of the "most corrupt country in the world." We have had enough, nothing concrete has been done to reduce corruption.
Therefore, I firmly believe that changing the weekly holiday from Friday to Sunday will greatly help our country, we need to work on Friday and compete with the developed countries and not the under-developed ones.
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