
Golden Jubilee of Bangladesh Society with 19 thousand members
Hakikul Islam Khokon
An auditorium with only 1,000 seats has been hired for the 50th anniversary celebration of the 19,000-member organization. Through this, Bangladesh society officials like many others in the community are staging farce plays. This festival is supposed to be held on November 2. Those interested in participating are invited to register online for a fee of $50. to be heldThe golden jubilee ceremony will be held at ‘Terrace on the Park’ in Queens. Khabar IBNNews.
Remembrance meetings and prayers, blood donation program and interaction with community leaders will be organized on the occasion. The main event will include reception of freedom fighters, discussion meeting, heritage exhibition, performance of new generation, honoring of prominent people who have contributed in diaspora and cultural programs. Besides, a special commemorative book is publishedwill be done, where the history, struggle and success of the organization will be preserved.
It should be noted that Bangladesh Society Inc. was established on November 23, 1975 with the aim of protecting the unity, culture and traditions of Bangladeshi expatriates. Although Bangladesh Society Inc claims to be the umbrella organization of expatriate Bangladeshis based in New York, it has not been able to attract all levels of expatriates in the past activities. Whose naked exposure is possibleIn the competition to make members/voters in the money of the candidates. There is a $20 fee for each membership renewal or new membership. Even though there have been many complaints and even cases against recruitment of members outside the organizational rules, the concerned have not learned from it. As a result, 19,000 voters appeared during the election, but no major event gathered more than 500 people. Keeping that in mind, only one thousand seatsThe auditorium has been hired for the 50th anniversary celebrations. Many people think that there will not be more than a hundred people interested in participating in the festival with a fee of 50 dollars. In this case, the fees of the preferred persons like voters/members are to be borne by the officials.
The current committee made many promises while taking oath. A complementary building is to be purchased, to be known as the Bangladesh Centre. Its implementation has not yet happened. Moreover outgoingOut of the 240,000 dollars paid by the committee for the purchase of grave sites outside of the organizational rules, not a single dollar was returned. The society received 19 checks to be deposited in the bank in different installments on October 3 after the debt negotiation. The first check is for $50,000, which must be deposited this month. Each subsequent check of $10,000 will be deposited every month starting January as per the specified date. of the alleged grave projectOfficials collected checks from the society. The question of the general members is why installments have been used to return the money due to the fear of not being able to provide a burial place here. On the same day as the ceremony of ‘inauguration’ from the outgoing committee, the outgoing committee of the society paid a check of 260,000 dollars for the purchase of the alleged grave site. And this information was kept secret during the inauguration ceremony. Later noticeBecause of this, the new committee started a debt-courting process to bring back the money