Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb took serious exception to the way some fanatics attacked Durga puja mandaps, temples and launched violent attack on Hindus across Bangladesh.
A news agency reported that the Chief Minister of the state- which is located close to Comilla in Bangladesh from where the violence started and then swept the country- held a discussion over telephone with Indian High Commissioner in Bangladesh, Vikram K. Doraiswami. The Indian envoy briefed Deb about the incidents in details.
“Doraiswami informed Deb that the situation is under control now. He and other Indian officials in various diplomatic missions in Bangladesh have visited different places to know the details of the incidents at the ground level. The situation is being closely monitored and the Bangladeshi authorities are fully cooperating to deal with it,” the agency said quoting sources referring to the telephonic conversation between Doraiswami and Deb.
Incidents of violence erupted from Hajiganj, Chandpur, Noakhali, Cox’s Bazaar, Chattogram, Chapainawabganj, Pabna, Moulvibazara and Kurigram after someone as a part of deep rooted conspiracy placed a Quran at the Nanuar Dighi Puja mandap. Bangladesh police arrested the man who as it turned out to be Muslim and he acted as a part of the plot.
Former Tripura Governor and West Bengal BJP leader Tathagata Roy tweeted: “Hindu awakening in West Bengal and elsewhere has prompted Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina to announce stringent steps to Hindu-baiters of Comilla and elsewhere. Whatever her faults, she is the best hope of Hindus in Bangladesh.”
Bengal opposition leader and BJP legislator Suvendu Adhikari urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar “to take up this painful and shameful issue with the Bangladeshi authorities diplomatically and support the Sanatani Bengalis in these time of distress”.
