Indian social media users are angry at the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) for permitting a bilateral Test and T20 series with Bangladesh on Indian soil, despite the ongoing anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh, according to the media reports. On Sunday, ahead of the 1st Test match agains India, the Bangladesh men’s cricket team received a warm welcome at Chennai’.
Many netizens expressed their frustration over the hospitality given to the Bangladeshi cricketers when Hindu minorities are being killed. “We are seriously welcoming these Bangladeshi cricketers like honourable guests? Most of these are silent supporters of Hindu genocide in Bangladesh,” tweeted popular X user ‘Mr Sinha’. Journalist Ajeet Bharti wrote, “Shameless BCCI! From dancing in front of Pakistani team for money to this, a new low.”
What a shameful scene…. We are seriously welcoming these Bangladeshi cricketers like honorable guests?
Most of these are silent supporters of Hindus genocide in Bangladesh… pic.twitter.com/YoV7TYdQmz
— Mr Sinha (@MrSinha_) September 16, 2024
Hindu spiritual leader Radharamn Das tweeted, “The BCCI has shown utter disregard for protesting Hindus worldwide. Just look at how BCCI and ICC welcomed Bangladeshi cricketers to India today, while Hindus are being ethnically cleansed in Bangladesh. Shame on you.”
“Shame on you BCCI . I, like millions of self-respecting Hindus will not be watching this series. And shame on our cricketing fraternity that they could take the knee for some BLM but can’t protest for their co-religionists being butchered in Bangladesh!” he tweeted.“You are a disgrace. Hope no self respecting Hindu buys a ticket,” posted nationalist Twitter handle ‘Kreately.’
Shame on you @BCCI . I, like millions of self-respecting Hindus will not be watching this series.
And shame on our cricketing fraternity that they could take the knee for some BLM but can't protest for their co-religionists being butchered in Bangladesh! https://t.co/7xonzXKee2
— Arun Krishnan 🇮🇳 (@ArunKrishnan_) September 17, 2024
Media portal ‘Hindu Post’ said, “Unless Hindus develop a modicum of self-respect and spine, the size of Bharat’s economy is meaningless. We couldn’t cancel a cricket series with #Bangladesh in solidarity with persecuted and suffering Bangladeshi Hindus? Not just that – we roll out the red carpet for the Bangladesh team, to rub more salt in the wounds of Hindus!”
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Since the ouster of Sheikha Hasina as Prime Minister of Bangladesh, there have been at least 205 attacks on Hindu temples, shops and businesses. A Hindu boy named Utsab Mandal was lynched by a Muslim mob on accusations of ‘blasphemy’ in the Sonadanga residential area of Khulna city. Muslim students have forced as many as 60 Hindu teachers, professors and government officials to resign from their positions.
Asad Noor, Human rights activist and exiled Bangladeshi blogger, has recently revealed that the minority community is now being forced into joining ‘Jamaat-e-Islami’. On 6th September, a procession of Hindu devotees carrying the idol of Lord Ganesha came under attack in the Kadam Mubarak area in Chittagong city of Bangladesh.
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