Bangladesh government silent on violence against Hindus: RSS

New Delhi | Kolkata: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Friday strongly condemned atrocities committed against Hindus and other minorities in Bangladesh and demanded release of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) monk Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari.

RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale, in a statement, also appealed to the Indian government to continue efforts to end the atrocities on Hindus and other minorities in Bangladesh and take necessary steps to build global opinion in its support "as soon as possible".

"The attacks, murders, looting, arson as well as inhuman atrocities by Islamic fundamentalists on Hindus, women and all other minorities in Bangladesh are extremely worrying and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh condemns this," he said.


Instead of stopping the atrocities, the present Bangladesh government and other agencies are only silent spectators, Hosabale said.

"Out of helplessness, a new phase of injustice and atrocities seems to be emerging against the Hindus of Bangladesh to suppress the voice raised by them in a democratic way for self-defence," the RSS general secretary said.

Bangladesh police earlier on Monday arrested the ISKCON monk from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport area in Dhaka while he was travelling to Chittagong.

Bangladeshi arrested with fake Indian passport
In another development, a Bangladeshi man, who had been staying in Kolkata with a fake Indian passport, was arrested on Saturday.

The accused was identified as Selim Matabbar a.k.a Safiq Sardar, a resident of Madaripur in Bangladesh. However, in the fake passport, Matabbar identified himself as Rabi Sharma, a resident of Rajasthan. Matabbar illegally crossed the borders almost two years back.