CID arrested Hindu youth who was making 81 feet high statue of Lord Ram, minorities took to the streets in Dhaka

In the neighboring country Bangladesh, there has once again been a fierce political and social turmoil regarding religious freedom and security of minorities. The atmosphere of the entire country has become extremely tense after the sudden arrest of a Hindu youth, Haridas Chandra Tarni Das, who was getting the historical construction of 81 feet high grand and giant statue of Maryada Purushottam Lord Shri Ram done in Palashbari area of ​​Gaikbandha district. On Saturday, top leaders of Hindu, Buddhist and Christian communities united and staged a huge protest outside the National Press Club in the capital Dhaka against this repressive action. The protesters have directly accused the government that under the pressure of the fundamentalists of the majority society, Haridas has been sent to jail by implicating him in a completely fabricated and false case of money laundering to disrupt the construction work of the statue. CID’s Money Laundering Claim: Serious questions raised on the theory of suspicious transactions and forced religious conversion. Bangladesh’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested Haridas Chandra in this high-profile case under serious charges of suspicious transactions and illegal financial manipulation worth Taka 9.35 crore (Bangladeshi currency). Police and security agencies in their investigation have made a sensational claim that Haridas had crossed the border to India illegally in the year 2010 and later in 2019 he had allegedly converted to Islam. However, after the local court’s decision to send Haridas directly to jail in judicial custody without any detailed investigation, the anger of the minority organizations of the country has erupted, who are terming the police’s theory of religious conversion and financial manipulation as a well-planned conspiracy. Minority Unity Council’s big ultimatum: A very strict and direct warning has been issued to the interim government in this huge protest organized under the banner of ‘Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council’. Council’s Central General Secretary Manindra Kumar Nath strongly condemned this repressive arrest and said that the state machinery is deliberately creating hurdles in the exercise of religious faith, which the minority community of the country will not tolerate at any cost. At the same time, Subrata Chaudhary, a senior and powerful leader of the Council, gave a tough ultimatum to the administration and made it clear that if innocent Haridas is not immediately released with dignity, then in the coming days, all three minority communities will collectively take to the streets and start a nationwide violent movement. He raised the question that on whose instructions is this disgusting game of disturbing the communal harmony of the country being played? More than 3000 incidents of atrocities in a year: Hindu society shocked by Narsingdi’s Chanchal Bhowmik massacre. Manindra Kumar Nath also made public the horrific figures of continuous violent incidents against minorities in Bangladesh in front of the international media. He said that within the last one year, more than 3,000 violent incidents of barbaric atrocities on Hindus and other minorities have been recorded across Bangladesh, in which 66 innocent people were systematically murdered and dozens of ancient temples were destroyed by fundamentalists. Recently, the case of death of 25-year-old Hindu youth Chanchal Bhowmik under suspicious circumstances in Narsingdi district has also become very hot, after the CCTV footage of which has surfaced, it is being confirmed that he was brutally beaten to death. Earlier, in Gaikbandha district itself, huge anger was seen over the incident of public insult of Lord Ram’s pictures during an Islamic procession. The Government of India also expressed strong concern on the global stage: The Ministry of External Affairs advised Dhaka to strengthen the security. The Government of India has also adopted a very strict and clear stand on these continuous attacks on Hindus and their religious symbols inside Bangladesh. While issuing a statement on this sensitive topic, the official spokesperson of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Randhir Jaiswal had said that New Delhi is keeping a very close watch on the incidents of continuous insult and vandalism of statues and religious pictures of Hindu deities in Bangladesh. Under international diplomatic rules, India had strongly appealed to the then government of Bangladesh to impose strict legal control on these extremist and fundamentalist elements with immediate effect, send the culprits to jail and ensure strong security to the life and property of the entire minority population.