C T Online Desk: A total of 33 more devotees left Dhaka early Tuesday to perform Umrah in Saudi Arabia with the financial assistance of Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir.
In the last Ramadan, Anvir, also the Chief Adviser to the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque Musalli Committee, pledged to send 104 devotees to perform Umrah.
“Musalli Committee Chief Adviser Sayem Sobhan Anvir has expressed his desire to send insolvent devotees to perform Umrah. Some 33 new pilgrims are going to Saudi Arabia in second phase,” Eakub Ali, President of Musalli Committee, told a meeting at Baitul Mukarram in the capital on Monday.
Musalli Committee Vice-President Shahidul Islam, General Secretary Mizanur Rahman Manik, and Joint Secretaries Shah Alam Mintu and Shafi Sarwar Liton, Organising Secretary Nasir Uddin Gazi were also present on the occasion.
The rest of the devotees will go to perform Umrah by next January, he said.
Musalli Committee General Secretary Mizanur Rahman Manik said that the Bashundhara Group MD also supported month-long iftar programme at the national mosque.
They later prayed for a long and healthy life of the Bashundhara Group MD and his family members and prosperity of his company after performing Maghrib prayers.
Pesh Imam Maulana Mizanur Rahman conducted the prayer while Musalli Committee members handed over some gifts, including Punjabi and Tasbi, to the devotees.
Earlier, the pilgrims called on Sayem Sobhan Anvir at his residence in the capital.
