Staff Reporter
State Minister for Infor-mation and Broadcasting Yasser Khan Choudhury yesterday said initiatives will be taken to organise the Bangladesh Betar debate competition at the regional level in different districts across the coun-try in the future.
“Debates help students develop their knowledge, reasoning, information analysis and presentation skills. However, im-portance must be given to ensuring that debates do not become argu-ments merely for the sake of arguing. The infor-mation presented in de-bates must be accurate, reliable and knowledge-based,” he said.
The state minister said this while addressing the ceremony of the ‘Betar Debate Competition-2026’ organised by Bangladesh Betar in the capital.
Yasser said students have to study various subjects and acquire knowledge to participate in debate competitions. Yester-day’s students will lead in various professions, including engineering, medicine and journalism, in the future. Therefore, they must actively partic-ipate in co-curricular activities alongside their studies, he added.
Moderator of the final debate and Additional Secretary of the ministry Md Shah Alam ad-dressed the programme with Director General of Bangladesh Betar A S M Zahid in the chair.
Earlier, trophies, certifi-cates and crests were dis-tributed among the champion and runners-up teams.
