India on October 12 employed the Bangladesh federal authorities “to ensure the safety and security of Hindus” complying with a wave of strikes on holy locations all through the recurring Durga Puja occasion.
Calling it a ‘systematic pattern of desecration’ the MEA in its declaration claimed, “We call upon the Government of Bangladesh to ensure the safety and security of Hindus and all minorities and their places of worship.”
The declaration might be discovered within the wake of occasions of housebreaking and felony harm in Bangladesh, the place Hindu religious web sites have truly been focused. On Friday night, a firebomb was tossed at a holy place in Dhaka’s Tantibazar location, stimulating panic amongst worshippers.
“We have noted with serious concern the attack on a Puja mandap in Tantibazar, Dhaka and the theft at the revered Jeshoreshwari Kali temple at Satkhira. These are deplorable events. They follow a systematic pattern of desecration and damage to temples and deities that we have witnessed over several days now. We call upon the Government of Bangladesh to ensure the safety and security of Hindus and all minorities and their places of worship, especially during this auspicious festival time,” checked out a information launch by Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
Earlier, a crown of Goddess Kali on the Jeshoreshwari Temple in Bangladesh’s Satkhira, proficient by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was swiped. The silver and gold-plated crown was supposedly swiped when Temple Priest Dilip Mukherjee left complying with the day’s prayer.
Seventeen individuals have truly been jailed about round 35 horrible occasions related to Durga Puja events this month, Bangladesh cops claimed.
The strikes and housebreaking have truly left Bangladesh’s Hindu neighborhood, that makes up round 8 p.c of the nation’s 170 million populace, actually feeling progressively in danger.
Earlier, The United States claimed it intends to see the civil liberties of the minority neighborhoods shielded in Bangladesh as Hindus commemorate their greatest occasion of Durga Puja.
“Of course, we want to see the rights of minorities protected in Bangladesh as also is true all around the world,” State Department agent Matthew Miller knowledgeable press reporters at his day-to-day press convention.
