London:
UK member of Parliament Bob Blackman, chair of the All Celebration Parliamentary Group (APPG) for British Hindus, has raised issues within the Home of Commons over the assaults on Hindus in Bangladesh.
Throughout a Parliament session on Thursday, the MP for Harrow East in north London condemned the persecution of minorities and the imprisonment of Hindu religious chief Chinmoy Krishna Das in Bangladesh.
He identified that Das is the religious chief of the Worldwide Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), which runs the Bhaktivedanta Manor temple at Elstree in Watford, one of many UK’s largest Hindu temples on the outskirts of London.
“[He] is underneath arrest in Bangladesh and Hindus throughout Bangladesh are being subjected to dying, with their homes and temples being burnt,” Blackman informed MPs.
“There was at the moment (Thursday) an try in Bangladesh’s Excessive Courtroom to rule that ISKCON must be banned from the nation, which is a direct assault on Hindus. There’s now a risk from India to take motion and we now have a accountability as a result of we enabled Bangladesh to be free and impartial,” he stated.
The Opposition Conservative Celebration MP confused that it “can’t be acceptable that non secular minorities are persecuted on this approach” and referred to as for freedom of faith to be preserved globally.
“We assist freedom of faith or perception all over the place and that features Bangladesh. I’ll definitely ask Overseas Workplace Ministers to have a look at coming ahead with an announcement about what is occurring to Hindus in Bangladesh,” stated Lucy Powell in her response on behalf of the UK authorities because the Chief of the Home of Commons.
Blackman’s intervention was welcomed by the diaspora group Buddies of India Society Worldwide (FISI) UK which condemned the quite a few assaults on Hindus and different minorities in Bangladesh, together with “arson, looting, theft, vandalism, and desecration of temples and deities”.
It follows a Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) assertion calling on Bangladesh authorities to make sure the “security and safety of Hindus and all minorities, together with their proper of freedom of peaceable meeting and expression”.
The MEA assertion stated: “We’ve famous with deep concern the arrest and denial of bail to Shri Chinmoy Krishna Das, the Bangladesh Sammilit Sanatan Jagran Jote spokesperson. This incident follows the a number of assaults on Hindus and different minorities by extremist components in Bangladesh.
“There are a number of documented circumstances of arson and looting of minorities’ properties and enterprise institutions in addition to theft and vandalism and desecration of deities and temples. It’s unlucky that whereas the perpetrators of those incidents stay at giant, expenses must be pressed towards a non secular chief presenting reputable calls for via peaceable gatherings. We additionally notice with concern the assaults on minorities protesting peacefully towards the arrest of Shri Das.”
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