Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh is coming to India on 5 September. She will be in New Delhi till 8 September to discuss various matters with the Indian Prime Minister and other officials.

Various organisation like Prabashi Bangyio Samaj, Delhi-NCR, All India Refugee Front, Kolkata, and other Bengali and Refugee Organisations has demanded actions by Bangladesh Government to protect Hindu-Budhistminorities in Bangladesh in a media release.

A Protest Sit-in at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi on 6th September is scheduled to protest and demand the visiting Bangladesh premier to take immediate action and protect Hindu Budhist minorities in Bangladesh.

The release states “We take this opportunity to place our demands to Sheikh Hasina and demand her personal assurance to stop the continuous atrocities on the minority Hindus and Buddhists of Bangladesh”

During the Durga Puja festival last year in 2021, there were about 200 incidents of attacks on Hindu temples and communities throughout Bangladesh. Now Puja season is coming and already there have been a number of incidents of damaging Durga idols. Besides as many as 79 Hindus have been killed in Bangladesh in the last six months. In the last six months alone, there have been 501 organised attacks on Hindus, 56 temples were attacked and 50 idol thefts, the release stated.

In addition, 13 Hindu community members were raped, 10 were gang-raped, three were killed after the rape, 19 rape attempts, 95 were converted, 21 were tried for conversion and 63 incidents of hurting religious sentiments happened in the country. Hindu teachers are being beaten and harassed with shoe garlands around their necks. In Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gopalganj, Narail, Savar and other places, one incident after another is happening non-stop. Bangladesh government remains a mute spectator only.

Even the cases are filed by police, no conviction for communal harassment by Muslims taken place in last 50 years. In the Chittagong Hill Tract area Buddhist Chakma community is also continuously harassed, attacked and conversion is going on. The recent census of Bangladesh shows that percent of Hindu population has gone further down to 7 percent only, the organisation pointed out.

“We also feel that the Government of India has failed in its duty to protect Hindus of Bangladesh. While one comment in an insignificant TV show can organize a number of Muslim countries to threaten India, our Government does not show that courage for the Hindu cause. During the devastating attacks on Durga Puja festivals last year, the response of Indian Government was too feeble, even certifying Bangladesh Government for their nonexistent protective action”-the release highlighted.

“We expect the Government of India corrects the stand and reminds Bangladesh PM of her duty to protect the minorities. During this visit Government of India’s actions should also send a supportive message to the Hindus of Bangladesh. We want to remind Ms. Sheikh Hasina that Bangladesh was created in the blood of thousands of Indian soldiers and 2.5 million lives of the Bengali Hindus”, is further stated.

The organisations demands:

“We insist respectfully that She should –
Stop all atrocities on Hindu Buddhists communities
Arrest and convict all the criminals related to communal violence
Stop harassing Hindus in the name false blasphemy cases.
Apologise to all Hindu teachers and withdraw all false cases.
Stop the anti Hindu campaign in Islamic Waz and Mehfil.”

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