MADARIPUR, Oct 9, 2024 (BSS) - Religious Affairs Adviser Dr AFM Khalid Hossain has said the hajj pilgrims will be able to perform hajj by a less amount of money as the government is going to make arrangement of travelling to Saudi Arabia through waterway.

"We have discussed the proposal with the Saudi authorities to send pilgrims through waterway as the people used to travel by ships for hajj before and after the independence", he told a function at Jamiatual Sunnah Madrasha in Shibchar upazila here on Tuesday night.

Saudi government, he said, primarily gave consent to the proposal. "We have already talked to the owners of the ship companies to open a door so that the common people can perform hajj in a cost-effective way," he added.

The religious adviser said the cost of travelling by Biman Bangladesh Airlines now is very high. "We have also discussed it with Biman to reduce the fare and we are hopeful that the hajj packages would be cost-effective," he added.

Chaired by Allama Mahmudul Hasan, the function was attended, among others, by Hazrat Maulana Mahfuzul Huq, director Maulana Obaidur Rahman Khan Nadvi and director general of Gauharpur Madrasha Maulana Musleh Uddin.