Bangladesh, July 17 -- Fifty representatives, recommended by 10 members of the parliamentary standing committee on Religious Affairs Ministry, are going to Saudi Arabia to perform holy hajj at the government expenditure this year.
The ministry has approved the proposal made by the JS body at a meeting held on June 10.
Each of the members can recommend five representatives to perform hajj at government cost. This year three members of the same committee are going to perform hajj with the hajj delegation.
State Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Md Abdullah has turned down a proposal to include members of a Jatiya Sangsad (JS) body in his ministry's various committees on hajj management.
Chairman of the JS body on the Religious Affairs...