New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Foreign Minister S Jaishankar Thursday to debate assaults on non secular minorities, together with Hindus, in neighbouring Bangladesh. This contains the arrest this week of Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari and the vandalism of a temple in Chattogram district.
Following his assembly with the PM, Mr Jaishankar is predicted to handle each Houses Parliament tomorrow, assuming proceedings aren’t disrupted by the opposition.
His remarks will come as unrest continues in Bangladesh following the student-led riot in August of this 12 months, which pressured then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to stop and flee to India.
The Bangladeshi Army took management, briefly, of the nation’s authorities earlier than an interim administration, headed by Nobel laureate Mohd Yunus, took cost in August. However, it has been accused of failing to reign within the assaults on Hindus and different minority communities.
Since then, there have been “a number of assaults on Hindus, and different minorities, by extremist parts”, the External Affairs Ministry mentioned Tuesday after Chinmoy Brahmachari was arrested.
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“There are a number of documented circumstances of arson and looting of minorities’ houses and enterprise institutions, in addition to theft and vandalism and desecration of deities and temples,” the ministry mentioned.
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The Yunus authorities has reaffirmed “within the strongest phrases” that each Bangladeshi, no matter their non secular identification, has the “proper to determine, preserve or carry out respective non secular rituals and practices or categorical views with out hindrance.”
Chinmoy Brahmachari was arrested after protests by the Hindu group in Rangpur, about 300km north of nationwide capital Dhaka. Protesters had been demanding stronger authorized safety and a ministry devoted to minority affairs. The arrest follows a sedition case filed this month – allegedly for his stance on violence towards Hindus, who are round eight per cent of Bangladesh’s 170 million individuals.
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