Dhaka, Feb. 4 -- Jatiya Party MP Mujibul Haque Chunnu on Sunday demanded to drop two controversial lines from 'Sharifa's story' in the textbook of Grade-VII.

The opposition chief whip made this demand while participating in an unscheduled discussion in the House.

Chunnu, also the secretary general of Jatiya Party, said, "Recently, one issue is being discussed everywhere in newspapers and social media - it can be seen that many times there are wrong discussions, people's sentiments are getting hurt. It creates confusion. It's a story from a Class VII textbook - Sharifa's story."

After reading out the story in Parliament, Haque highlighted the differences between transgender, third gender and hijra, and said that considering oneself to b...