Raising the question of how a state can be inclusive if it is not secular, Professor Anu Muhammad said, secularism means that the state will remain neutral in these matters - state, race, religion, gender. The state will provide equal rights and opportunities to everyone. If a state does not take this position, then that state is already segregating followers of other religions.Anu Muhammad said this while referring to the proposal of the Constitutional Reform Commission to remove the word 'secularism' from the basic principles of the constitution. Today, Monday, he delivered the closing speech at a seminar titled 'From Autocracy to Democracy: In Search of a Discrimination-Free Bangladesh' at the Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury Auditorium of Dhaka University. The day-long seminar was organized by the political, economic and social analytical journal 'Sarvajanakatha'. Professor Anu Muhammad, editor of Sarvajanakatha. Raising the question of how a state can be inclusive if it is not secular, Professor Anu Muhammad said, secularism means that the state will remain neutral in these matters - state, race, religion, gender. The state will give equal rights and opportunities to everyone. If a state does not take this position, then that state is already segregating followers of other religions.Anu Muhammad said this while referring to the proposal of the Constitutional Reform Commission to remove the word 'secularism' from the basic principles of the constitution. Today, Monday, he delivered the closing speech at the seminar titled 'The Path from Autocracy to Democracy: In Search of a Discrimination-Free Bangladesh' at the Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury Auditorium of Dhaka University. This day-long seminar was organized by the political, economic and social analytical journal 'Sarvajanakatha'. Professor Anu Muhammad, editor of Sarvajanakatha.