BNP's project to mainstream and revive local culture

Amir Khashru Mahmud Chowdhury, member, BNP standing committee addressing a progremme on the birth anniversary of National Poet Nazi Nazrul Islam at the National Press Club on Monday.

Bangladesh's main political party, BNP, has taken up a project to mainstream and monetise the indigenous art and culture under a project named 'Creative Industry'.

Disclosing this party's standing committee member Amir Khashru Mahmud Chowdhury said after the end of fascist regime Bangladesh needs to rediscover and popularise its indigenous, songs of different genres, dramas, works of artisans and weavers that are on the wane.

We will formulate a policy for cultural revival and economic resurgence through the use of this soft power, and talk to all concerned and take inputs from them for the purpose, he said.

Chowdhury was addressing a discussion on the 126th birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, organised by the Jatiyatabadi Sangskritik Dal as the chief guest at the National Press Club. Presided over by Prof Anwarullah Chowdhury, former VC of Dhaka University, Abdus Salam and Prof Sukomol Barua advisers to the BNP  chairperson, BNP joint secretary Khairul Kabir Khokan, Mostafa Kamal Majumder, editor, Greenwatch Dhaka, Sangskritik Dal president, Humayun Kabir Bepari, BNP central committee member Rezabuddaulah Chowdhury, and Babul Ahmed among others.

He said, 'We have failed to mainstream and monetise them although they form invaluable ingredients of our culture.'

Under the project all songs, drama, pieces of work of artisans, potters, blacksmiths of both the mainland and the hills will be mainstreamed because they have two-fold values, 1) form part of our life and culture, and 2) can be monetised as tradeable products, Amir Khashru Mahmud Chowdhury said. - Greenwatch Dhaka News Desk