New Delhi, Oct 20: The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) demanded on Wednesday that a fact-finding team of Indian parliamentarians should be sent to Bangladesh for a probe into the recent incidents of violence against Hindu minorities in the neighbouring country and its report be made public.
The saffron outfit also appealed to the Union government to “act tough” and exert adequate pressure on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government to ensure that the Hindu minorities in Bangladesh are not discriminated against and persecuted.
“The central government should send a fact-finding team of MPs to Bangladesh to conduct a full investigation into the persecution of the indigenous minority Hindus in Bangladesh and make its report public,” a VHP statement quoted the outfit’s joint general secretary Surendra Jain as saying.
Jain was addressing a protest, organised by the VHP, near the Bangladesh High Commission in Delhi against the recent attacks on Hindu minorities and vandalisation of temples and Durga puja marquees in Bangladesh.
“The GoI does not stand so strongly against the persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh as it does in similar situations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Therefore, the GoI should act tough and exert all appropriate pulls and pressures on the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,” the VHP leader said. (PTI)
