Bangladesh hajj quota remains unchanged at 1.27 lakh
A total of 127,198 Bangladeshis will be able to perform hajj this year, the same as last year, although the quota went unfulfilled in 2023.
Dhaka and Riyadh signed a bilateral agreement in this regard in Jeddah on Monday morning.
The Saudi Arabia delegation included Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah Dr. Abdul Fattah bin Sulaiman Mashat and other officials of Saudi Arabia and the Bangladesh delegation included Secretary of the Ministry of Religious Affairs Md. Abdul Hamid Jamaddar, President of HAAB M Shahadat Hossain Taslim and other officials of the Ministry of Religious Affairs.