There are reports that attacks on Hindus have been happening across multiple places in Bangladesh since the ouster of its PM, Sheikh Hasina, in August.
Vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday accused neighborhood attacks on Hindus, questioning the “deafening silence” of “so-called moral preachers.”
They are mercenaries of something antithetical to human rights, PTI quoted Dhankhar while addressing the foundation day celebrations.
“We are too tolerant, and being too tolerant to such transgressions is inappropriate. Think if you were one of those,” the vice president said.
Look at the kind of barbarity, torture, the traumatized experience of boys, girls, and women, he said, adding look at our religious places being subjected to sacrilege.
Dhankhar’s remarks come in the wake of reports of attacks on Hindus across Bangladesh since the ouster of its prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, in August.
According to a PTI report, it has come to know that at least 17 people have been arrested and around a dozen cases registered after “untoward incidents” during the Durga Puja celebrations in Bangladesh.
At independence, some three crore Hindus comprised a little more than 8 percent of the 17 crore Bangladeshi population.
They suffered vandalism of their shops and other businesses, as well as destruction of temples, during student-led violence that toppled Hasina.
