In these elections in the United States, a great electoral battle is being fought regarding India, Indians and Indianness. On the one hand, Kamala Harris has tried to woo voters by calling herself an Indian-American, while on the other, Trump has played a new trick by adopting the name Hindus. For the first time in his election campaign, Donald Trump openly spoke about the atrocities committed against Hindus and this also raised the issue from the United States to Bangladesh.
Donald Trump has strongly condemned the barbaric violence and looting against Hindus, Christians and other minorities in Bangladesh. He also said that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have ignored Hindus around the world and in the United States, which Trump will never do. They will protect Hindus around the world, including American Hindus. ISKCON also praised and thanked Trump for this statement.
In reality, the Hindu minority in Bangladesh is scared. And this fear is because Muslim fundamentalist organizations, which feel powerful in the interim government of Bangladesh, are attacking the Hindu minority. The attempt to kill Hindu student Hriday Pal in Faridpur on October 28 by some army personnel and a crowd walking blindly in the storm of fanaticism is not the only incident in Bangladesh. In early September, 16-year-old Hindu student Utsav Mandal was also deceived by those driving frantically in the name of religion with false accusations of blasphemy and beaten to death in the presence of police and army.
Earlier, in Chandpur district, a Hindu citizen named Govind was also involved in a conspiracy and his house was attacked by the mob. Govind was also falsely accused of making objectionable remarks against the Prophet. To hatch this conspiracy, there appears to be a planned pattern in Bangladesh, where first a select fundamentalist group creates fake IDs on social media in the name of some Hindu citizens, then deliberate posts using objectionable language against Islam are made from those IDs. . And then by making the same post go viral, the mob is instigated to attack an innocent Hindu citizen.
Hindus are being thrown out of government jobs
Apart from the violence, the stomachs of Bangladeshi Hindus are also attacked. Hindu minorities are being fired from government jobs or forced to resign. The latest case is that of Rontu Das, an assistant professor in the history department of Bangladesh’s Chittagong University, who was forced to resign after receiving death threats. Not only teachers but also the jobs of Indian cadets undergoing police training in Bangladesh are at risk.
Recently, 252 sub-inspectors who had completed their training at the Sharda Police Academy were sacked on charges of indiscipline and irregularities. Of them, 91 were Indian police officers. An Indian police cadet wrote of the expulsion: The ship has sunk on the shore, my God. There are so many things happening. But despite continuous protests, Hindu organizations in Bangladesh are not getting justice or security for their livelihood.
Radical groups hack identity documents of Hindu citizens
The situation is such that according to allegations by Hindu organisations, Islamic fundamentalist groups in Bangladesh are hacking the IDs of Hindu citizens on social media and falsely accusing them of insulting Islam. And then Hindus are the target. Let us show you the video of the incident on October 28 last week. In the Faridpur district of Bangladesh, an 11th grade student named Hriday Pal was arrested for the first time on trumped-up charges of blasphemy. Fundamentalists and army personnel then attempted to lynch him en masse.
The video that has emerged shows how army soldiers arrest Hriday Pal and beat him on the way. Behind them walks the fanatic group shouting slogans to kill them. Here the Hindu heartland of Bangladesh was blindfolded. And they surrounded him and took him away, flogging him. This is the situation when there are army soldiers there. But in Bangladesh, the condition of the Hindus seems to be getting worse every day, because the army personnel, the police personnel, they are all mixed with the fundamentalist mob.
Sedition case against Chinmoy Das of ISKCON Group
A case of treason has been registered against Chinmoy Das, one of the prominent faces of the ISKCON group in Bangladesh. This case was registered against Chinmoy Das Brahmachari along with 19 other leaders and workers of Hindu organizations in Chittagong district on Wednesday (October 20) afternoon. Chinmoy Das has been charged with contempt and insulting the national flag of Bangladesh during a rally in Chittagong on October 25. The Chittagong police have alleged that during the demonstration, the saffron flag of ISKCON was hoisted over the national flag of Bangladesh.
Two people have also been arrested in this case. Chinmoy Das Brahmachari is the Secretary of ISKCON Trust in Bangladesh and continually organizes rallies and demonstrations to raise his voice against atrocities against Hindus.
