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segregation, based on religion, will have no place.
The lifelong political struggle of Bangabandhu also
essentially
epitomised
him
as
a
gladiator
for
establishing equal rights and equal recognition of
all faiths and their followers. This notion of nonsegregation and non-communality worked as momentum
for our liberation struggle. In the preamble, it was
clearly
spelt
nationalism,
shall
be
out
that
socialism,
the
the
high
democracy
fundamental
ideals
and
principles
of
secularism
of
the
constitution. But by the Proclamations (Amendment)
Order, 1977 (Proclamation Order No.1 of 1977), the
following words were added to the beginning of the
preamble,
namely,
“BISMILLAH-AR-RAHMAN-AR-RAHIM
(In
the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful).” In
2011, the Parliament brought Fifteenth Amendment to
the
constitution
and
made
various
significant
and
conspicuous changes. Although the Fifteenth Amendment
abolished or substituted most of the provisions that
were inserted by the martial law authority, it kept
the
religious
invocation
[BISMILLAH-AR-RAHMAN-AR-
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