Petraploe Blockade: Bengal Erupts Over Monks’ Arrests In Bangladesh, CM Mamata Presses Modi Govt For Action.

Bangladesh Hindus Under Attack: Bengal Erupts Over Monks’ Arrests, CM Mamata Presses Modi Govt For Action, In Tripura Hindu Protesters Ransacked BD Consulate.

Prakriti Ranjan & Amita Das | HENB | Kolkata – Agartala | Dec 2, 2024:: Thousands of protesters gathered in Petrapole, West Bengal, near the Bangladesh border on Monday, condemning the unlawful arrests of ISKCON monks and attacks on Hindu community members and properties in Bangladesh ¹. The demonstrators voiced their outrage against the interim government, led by Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus, for its failure to safeguard minority rights in the country.

The protest, organized under the banner of the Akhil Bharatiya Sant Samiti, saw participation from over 1,000 monks from various parts of West Bengal. The protesters demanded the release of detained spiritual leader Chinmoy Krishna Das and an immediate end to atrocities against minorities in Bangladesh .

West Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, who joined the protest, criticized the Bangladesh government, calling it “radical, extremist, and anti-Hindu.” Adhikari warned that if the attacks on temples and Hindus continued, a massive agitation would ensue.

The repercussion against the arrest of Chinmoy Krishna Das reached the nest level. There was a protest outside the office of Assistant High Commissioner (AHC) in Agartala in Tripura alleging atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh.

A group of protestors in Agartala managed to break the barricade. However, later police stopped the protests from barging inside the office. Some sources mentioned destruction of some properties in the AHC Office.

Hindu Protesters in Agartala have condemned the mistreatment of minorities in Bangladesh, leading to a trade boycott by the Indo-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry. An Agartala hospital has halted services for Bangladeshi patients. Various organisations and political leaders have urged Bangladesh to protect its Hindu minorities. Demonstrations also took place in Ulukandi, calling for an end to these atrocities.

However, security beefed up in Bangladesh mission in Tripura amid protests and India regretted the breach of security in the AHC office in an undesirable situation.

Reflecting growing cross-border tensions, ILS Super Specialty Hospital in Agartala has announced its decision to stop treating Bangladeshi nationals.

The hospital’s executive committee finalised this move in response to mounting protests by nationalist groups in Tripura, which have opposed the continued influx of Bangladeshi patients amid escalating communal violence across the border. Following the line of retaliation against the attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh and targeting the ISKCON members, Tripura Hotel Associations decided not to provide any facility to Bangladeshis.

Earlier, JN Ray Hospital in Kolkata has decided to stop treating Bangladeshi patients indefinitely due to the recent unrest situation in Bangladesh, particularly the anti-Hindu violence and disrespect towards the Indian national flag.

West Bengal’s Leader of Opposition in Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Monday threatened the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in Bangladesh of imposing an “indefinite export embargo” through the state’s land borders if the neighbouring country failed to reign in sustained attacks on minority Hindus and their institutions.

Speaking at a protest meeting at Petrapole organised by an apolitical organisation of monks, the Akhil Bharatiya Sant Samiti, at the Petrapole international land border in North 24 Parganas district where Adhikari participated alongside several other BJP leaders of the district, albeit without their party insignias, the LoP declared that “trade restrictions to Bangladesh would be tightened in phases crippling the country’s dependence on essential commodities from India.”

The tension is escalating in India-Bangladesh diplomatic situation, reaction in public is growing high day by day. A Kolkata-Bound Bus ‘Attacked’ In Bangladesh in Bangladesh’s Brahmanbaria, where passengers faced ‘Anti-India Slogans’. In another trail, Advocate Ramen Roy defending arrested monk Chinmoy Krishna Prabhu was attacked in Bangladesh by unidentified Islamist goons.

Bangladesh’s minority Hindus, which constitute about 8 percent of the 170 million population, have reportedly faced over 200 attacks in 50-odd districts since the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government on August 5.

Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, a Hindu spiritual leader, was arrested in Bangladesh in a sedition case. He was denied bail by a court, triggering protests by community members in various locations, including the capital Dhaka, and the port city of Chattogram.

The outcry against the brutal attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh and the baseless accusations of “terrorist activities” against ISKCON has transcended borders, with demonstrations now taking place worldwide. In a show of solidarity with ISKCON and Hindu minorities in Bangladesh, a significant number of Bangladeshi Hindus took to the streets in Montreal, Canada, to voice their condemnation of the atrocities.

Meanwhile, WB CM Mamata Banerjee urged to deploy UN peacekeeping force in Bangladesh seeking PM Modi’s intervention to save the vulnerable minority people there.

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__Inputs from Agencies.
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