Around 130 houses and 20 Hindu temples have been vandalized by the Islamist mob in Doarabazar, Sunamganj area of Bangladesh, many handles on social media reported. This is following an alleged blasphemous Facebook comment that locals claim caused insult to the Islam religion.
Shafiqul Alam, the press secretary of the Muhammad Yunus government, claimed that Hindus are safer under the current administration as compared to they were under Sheikh Hasina's regime.
ATHROA general secretary Saikat Bandyopadhyay said that the decision was taken at an emergency meeting on Monday. "We are a secular country and have respect for all religions. Our national flag has been desecrated and minorities are facing oppression by a section of fundamentalists in Bangladesh.
"The incident earlier today of the breach of premises at the Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in Agartala is deeply regrettable. Diplomatic and consular properties should not be targeted under any circumstances," the official statement by the MEA read.
"We came to participate in a religious ceremony in India, but immigration officials stopped us, citing the absence of government permission," ISKCON member Saurabh Tapandar Cheli said.
Salil Tripathi was at the forefront of peddling the Islamist narrative of 'Muslims protecting Hindu temples in Bangladesh' without highlighting the religious affiliation of the attackers.
A bus going from Agartala to Kolkata was attacked in the Brahmanbaria district of Bangladesh, after which the locals chanted anti-India slogans targeting the Indian passengers of the bus.
Munni Shah, a prominent journalist belonging to the Hindu Faith, was targeted following the undemocratic ouster of Sheikh Hasina as Bangladesh's Prime Minister
Islamists in Bangladesh are mobilizing support by trending #TMD or Total Malaun Deaths, with Malaun being a derogatory reference to Hindus on the lines of 'kaafir'.