On Wednesday ahead of the Durga Puja celebrations, a radical Muslim man vandalised the idols of Goddess Durga and other Hindu deities in Gouripur town in the Mymensingh district of Bangladesh. The accused was identified as 22-year-old Yasin Mia, according to the media reports. Notably, the police arrested him on Thursday morning for the vandalising the idols of Hindu dieties.
In the wee hours of Wednesday, Mia entered the premises of Gobindajew temple and started destroying the idols, which had been sculpted for the past 20 days. According to the media reports he was spotted by a Hindu woman named Dolly Rani as she raised an alarm and Mia was quickly arrested by two locals, Akhil Chandra Bishwasharma and Bipul Ghosh. The accused was then handed over to the police. Durga Puja will start from 9th October 2024. Hindu artisans were sculpting the idols at the Gobindajew temple in Gouripur as part of the preparation. However, only the painting of the idols remained when Yasin Mia laid siege to the Hindu mandir.
The arrested man is now being interrogated by the police. Yasin Mia, the son of Abdur Hannan, hails from Gajandar village in Gouripura upazila. The President of Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council (Gouripur upazila) remarked, ‘All idols have been more or less broken. I do not understand why this is done. I have never seen such an incident in my life’.
Since the ouster of Sheikha Hasina as Prime Minister of Bangladesh, there have been 205 attacks on Hindu temples, shops and businesses. A Hindu boy named Utsab Mandal was almost 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. Human rights activist and exiled Bangladeshi blogger, Asad Noor, 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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