Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed yesterday said all citizens living in Bangladesh should be identified as “Bangladeshis”, not as indigenous people, saying the issue had already been settled through political consensus and the constitutional framework. Referring to the July charter, he said political parties had agreed, without any note of dissent, that all citizens living within Bangladesh’s territory would be identified as Bangladeshis. The Chittagong Hill Tracts Research Foundation organised the roundtable, titled “Demands for Recognition of Indigenous Status Threaten National Sovereignty”, at a city hotel. Referring to countries such as the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, he said their histories involved migrant populations and Indigenous communities, while Bangladesh had developed through a different social and anthropological process. State Minister for Cultural Affairs Ali Newaz Mahmud Khaiyam said the state must ensure that terminology used for smaller ethnic communities did not create psychological inferiority or alienation.