India on October 12 hired the Bangladesh federal government “to ensure the safety and security of Hindus” complying with a wave of strikes on holy places throughout the recurring Durga Puja event.
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 can be found in the wake of events of burglary and criminal damage in Bangladesh, where Hindu spiritual websites have actually been targeted. On Friday evening, 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 news release by Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
Earlier, a crown of Goddess Kali at the Jeshoreshwari Temple in Bangladesh’s Satkhira, talented 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 people have actually been jailed about around 35 terrible events associated with Durga Puja parties this month, Bangladesh cops claimed.
The strikes and burglary have actually left Bangladesh’s Hindu neighborhood, that makes up around 8 percent of the nation’s 170 million populace, really feeling progressively at risk.
Earlier, The United States claimed it intends to see the civil liberties of the minority neighborhoods shielded in Bangladesh as Hindus commemorate their biggest event 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 informed press reporters at his day-to-day press conference.
