Amid issues of potential unrest throughout Durga puja, Bangladesh‘s interim authorities on Sunday warned potential troublemakers, pledging powerful motion towards these disrupting communal concord or focusing on locations of worship throughout the Hindu competition. Durga puja will probably be celebrated from October 9 to 13.
“If anybody disrupts or harasses folks at worship halls, we is not going to spare them.We’ll convey them below the regulation and guarantee peace,” Non secular Affairs Adviser Dr AFM Khalid Hossain stated throughout a go to to the Prematli Gaurang Bari Kalimandir in Godagari at Rajshahi district.
He urged members of the Hindu neighborhood to rejoice their festivals with enthusiasm and non secular fervour and guaranteed them that nobody can be allowed to hurt their temples, The Dhaka Tribune newspaper reported.
“For those who worry assaults in your temples, be assured that no criminals will succeed. We’ve engaged native folks, together with madrasa college students, to take turns guarding the temples. Nobody will cease us from celebrating our non secular festivals,” Hossain stated, asserting that the interim authorities desires to rework Bangladesh right into a state freed from discrimination and sectarianism.
The minority Hindu inhabitants confronted vandalism of their companies and properties, and destruction of temples, throughout the student-led violence that erupted following the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. After unprecedented anti-government protests that peaked on August 5, Hasina resigned as prime minister and fled to India.
On Saturday at Rajshahi Circuit Home, Hossain met with authorities officers and warned that miscreants would possibly try and disrupt communal concord forward of Durga puja.
“We should collectively resist such efforts,” he stated, suggesting that madrasa college students could possibly be engaged as volunteers to assist safeguard temples throughout the competition.
The adviser additionally instructed regulation enforcement and the administration to take measures to safe puja mandaps.
Final month, hundreds of Hindus staged protest rallies in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka and the northeastern port metropolis of Chattogram, demanding safety.
The Bangladesh Nationwide Hindu Grand Alliance in August stated the minority Hindu neighborhood confronted assaults and threats in 278 areas throughout 48 districts because the fall of the Hasina-led authorities and termed it as an “assault on the Hindu faith”.
Hindus, who made up 22 per cent of Bangladesh’s inhabitants on the time of the 1971 Liberation Battle, now represent about 8 per cent of 170 million.
“If anybody disrupts or harasses folks at worship halls, we is not going to spare them.We’ll convey them below the regulation and guarantee peace,” Non secular Affairs Adviser Dr AFM Khalid Hossain stated throughout a go to to the Prematli Gaurang Bari Kalimandir in Godagari at Rajshahi district.
He urged members of the Hindu neighborhood to rejoice their festivals with enthusiasm and non secular fervour and guaranteed them that nobody can be allowed to hurt their temples, The Dhaka Tribune newspaper reported.
“For those who worry assaults in your temples, be assured that no criminals will succeed. We’ve engaged native folks, together with madrasa college students, to take turns guarding the temples. Nobody will cease us from celebrating our non secular festivals,” Hossain stated, asserting that the interim authorities desires to rework Bangladesh right into a state freed from discrimination and sectarianism.
The minority Hindu inhabitants confronted vandalism of their companies and properties, and destruction of temples, throughout the student-led violence that erupted following the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. After unprecedented anti-government protests that peaked on August 5, Hasina resigned as prime minister and fled to India.
On Saturday at Rajshahi Circuit Home, Hossain met with authorities officers and warned that miscreants would possibly try and disrupt communal concord forward of Durga puja.
“We should collectively resist such efforts,” he stated, suggesting that madrasa college students could possibly be engaged as volunteers to assist safeguard temples throughout the competition.
The adviser additionally instructed regulation enforcement and the administration to take measures to safe puja mandaps.
Final month, hundreds of Hindus staged protest rallies in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka and the northeastern port metropolis of Chattogram, demanding safety.
The Bangladesh Nationwide Hindu Grand Alliance in August stated the minority Hindu neighborhood confronted assaults and threats in 278 areas throughout 48 districts because the fall of the Hasina-led authorities and termed it as an “assault on the Hindu faith”.
Hindus, who made up 22 per cent of Bangladesh’s inhabitants on the time of the 1971 Liberation Battle, now represent about 8 per cent of 170 million.
