Prime Minister opens hajj program

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the hajj programme at the hajj camp in the capital’s Ashkona area at 10.00am on Friday.

She also exchanged greetings with the hajj pilgrims.

The first hajj flight is scheduled to take off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Saudi Arabia at 2:45am on May 21.

The hajj is expected to be held on June 27 subjected to the sighting of the moon.

This year, a total of 122,221 pilgrims from Bangladesh are going to perform the holy hajj. The number of hajj pilgrims from Bangladesh was 57,585 last year due to Covid-19 restriction.

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, 127,198 pilgrims from Bangladesh performed hajj in 2019.