- UP CM Yogi Adityanath criticized mosque construction on Hindu sites and vowed to revive temples in Sambhal after violence in 2024.
- Following Sheikh Hasina’s ousting in Bangladesh, over 200 attacks on Hindus were reported, including violence and temple threats.
- Hindu homes, businesses, and temples in Bangladesh were targeted, with over 2,000 incidents of violence reported in a month.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said a Muslim family will surely feel safe among a hundred Hindu families but not vice versa while asserting that minorities were the safest in the state. ‘Over 50 Hindus can’t feel safe and secure among 100 Muslim families and highlighted the situation in Bangladesh, which has witnessed several attacks on minorities and temples in recent months’.
“A Muslim family is the safest among a hundred Hindu families and they have the freedom to practice all their religious deeds. But can 50 Hindus be safe among 100 Muslim families? No”. UP CM further said, “Bangladesh is an example. Before this, Pakistan was an example”. In August 2024, since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government in Bangladesh, there have been attacks on Hindus and many priests have also been arrested.
Homes of minorities have been looted, and at least 150 temples have been vandalised by Islamic radicals. This week Adityanath’s government completed eight years in power.
Temple-Mosque Disputes
UP CM questioned the construction of mosques on ‘Hindu sites’, saying it went Islamic principles. He vowed that the government will revive temples in Sambhal, which experienced massive violence in 2024 during a court-ordered survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid.
The violence resulted in the death of five people. As per the media sources, there are 64 pilgrimage sites in Sambhal, and we have found 54.
200 Attacks On Hindus In Bangladesh In Fallout Of Sheikh Hasina Government
Amid widespread violence, Bangladesh experienced the ousting of Sheikh Hasina leading to the forced resignations of the country’s chief justice and governor. Reports of several attacks on the Hindu minority in Bangladesh surfaced. Hindus, who represent about 8 % of Bangladesh’s 170 million people, have supported Sheikh Hasina’s secular Awami League party rather than the opposition bloc, according to ‘Reuters’.
At least two Hindu organizations in Bangladesh and members of minority communities have faced at least 205 attacks across 52 districts following the fallout of the Sheikh Hasina government, as per the ‘The Hindu’.
According to ‘The Daily Star’ newspaper, the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council and the Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad presented the data on such attacks Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who had just been sworn in as the head of the interim government.
Atrocities Towards Hindus
Since the departure of Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh, there have been continuous reports of atrocities on Hindus. According to the media reports, before Durga Puja, some Islamic groups threatened some temples there.
Temple committees were being asked to pay five lakh Bangladeshi Taka. Islamic groups threatened temple committees that if they want to celebrate Durga Puja, they will have to pay five lakh Bangladeshi Taka. A Hindu boy named Utsab Mandal has been attacked by a violent Muslim mob in Bangladesh’s Khulna over the allegations that he insulted Prophet Muhammad on social media. The incident happened on 4th September, in the second phase of Sonadanga residential area of the city.
Islamists targeted Hindu homes, businesses and temples in Dhaka.In one of the videos shared by ‘Voice of Bangladeshi Hindus’, a woman can be seen narrating, ‘They came and looted our house. They took away our money, gold and whatever valuable that was left with us. They also abducted my 14-year-old boy’.
Hindu temples had been targeted in Natore, Dhamrai in Dhaka, Kalapara in Patuakhali, Shariatpur, and Faridpur, houses in Jessore, Noakhali, Meherpur, Chandpur, and Khulna. Dinajpur witnessed the vandalisation of 40 Hindu shops.
Over 2,000 incidents of violence against minorities were reported in just one month following Hasina’s departure. Human rights activist and exiled Bangladeshi blogger Asad Noor revealed that the minority community was being forced to join ‘Jamaat-e-Islami’ in Bangladesh.
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