Several thousand people of the Hindu community in Bangladesh on Friday urged the interim government to take appropriate initiatives to stop sectarian attacks, persecution, and extrajudicial attempts to kill under the guise of mob justice across the country.
The leaders of the community, addressing a protest rally under the banner of the Bangladesh Combined Minority Alliance at the Central Shaheed Minar premises in Dhaka, also urged to ensure security during the forthcoming Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of Bengali Hindus.聽
Demanding exemplary punishment for the perpetrators of vandalizing makeshifts puja mandaps and idols and threatening Hindus during their movements on roads, they placed their eight-charter of demands including a five-day public holiday during Durga Puja.
Dhaka University student Sraboni Sarkar placed the demands also including the enactment of a law for protecting minority communities, the formation of minority affairs ministry, upgrading the 鈥楬indu Religious Welfare Trust鈥� to 鈥楬indu Foundation鈥�, and similarly, upgrading the Buddhist and Christian Religious Welfare Trusts to Foundations.
She said that a neutral investigation commission should be formed to ensure justice over the persecution of minority communities, especially the Sanatani Hindus.
She demanded the constitution and effective functioning of a 鈥楩ast-track trial tribunal鈥� to provide swift and appropriate punishment for the perpetrators.
Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, one of the spokespersons of Sammilito Sanatani Samaj-Bangladesh, announced that they would continue protests until their eight demands were met.
Bangladesh Hindu Parishad general secretary Sumon Kumar Roy announced divisional rallies to realise their demands and said that their first divisional rally would be held at Laldighi Maidan in Chattogram on October 26.
Bangladesh Hindu Mohajote general secretary Sushanta Kumar Chakraborty, among others, also spoke.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Barishal reported that Hindu community people, under the banner of Bangladesh Combined Minority Alliance, held a protest rally and brought out a red-flag procession in the divisional city protesting at the attacks on minority communities.
The procession began from the Barishal city Shaheed Minar premises, marched different city roads, and ended at Natun Bazar point.