The RSS has raised robust considerations over what it described because the “unabated and systematic persecution” of Hindus in Bangladesh, attributing it to a bigger geopolitical conspiracy involving “Pakistan and the Deep State”.
The Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS), the best decision-making physique of the RSS, handed a decision in the course of the second day of its ongoing session in Bengaluru Saturday, highlighting what it known as the “institutionalized oppression” of Hindu and different minority communities in Bangladesh.
The decision alleged that radical Islamist teams, with implicit help from sections of Bangladesh’s administration, have been orchestrating focused assaults on temples, spiritual establishments, and people from the Hindu neighborhood. These embrace the alleged desecration of deities, arson, pressured conversions, and situations of sexual violence towards ladies. “To dismiss these assaults as mere political conflicts is to disregard the fact that the victims belong overwhelmingly to the Hindu and different minority communities,” the decision said.
The decision claimed that the violence is not only an inner difficulty of Bangladesh however half of a bigger effort to destabilise the area. “There’s a concerted try by worldwide forces, notably Pakistan and the Deep State, to create an environment of mistrust and hostility between neighbouring nations,” it mentioned.
The RSS alleged these components are working to incite anti-India rhetoric in Bangladesh, which, it warned, might hurt New Delhi-Dhaka diplomatic ties.
Joint normal secretary of RSS Arun Kumar pointed to the sharp decline within the Hindu inhabitants in Bangladesh, calling it an “existential disaster”. Citing census information, he mentioned that Hindus made up 22% of Bangladesh’s inhabitants in 1951, which has fallen to 7.95%. The decision attributed this demographic shift to a long time of persecution, pressured migrations, and systematic discrimination.
“… We have now expressed critical concern over the human rights violations, steady violence and oppression of Bangladeshi Hindus,” Kumar mentioned. “… It isn’t as if regime change alone led to it. There’s a spiritual angle behind it. Nearly all of the continual targets are Hindus and different minority communities,” he mentioned.
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“India and Pakistan have shared values and tradition. Put up-Partition, it was mutually agreed to guard the minorities of each nations by the then leaders. Nonetheless, when Bangladesh was created out of East Pakistan, they didn’t honour the settlement, which ultimately led to the persecution of minorities together with Hindus,” mentioned Kumar. “What we’re witnessing shouldn’t be a one-off case of spiritual violence however a long-term pattern that threatens the very existence of Hindus in Bangladesh,” he mentioned. He mentioned the rising insecurity amongst minority communities in Bangladesh might result in regional instability.
The ABPS urged the Centre to take up the problem at diplomatic and worldwide boards to make sure the protection and dignity of Hindus in Bangladesh. The decision additionally known as on world organisations together with the United Nations to pressurise Bangladesh to take strict motion towards Islamist teams accused of finishing up assaults on minorities.
Whereas Bangladesh authorities has beforehand condemned such assaults and warranted safety for minorities, the RSS argued that extra concrete steps are wanted.
The decision additionally recommended the PM Narendra Modi-led authorities for talking out on the problem, saying, “The Authorities of Bharat has expressed its resolve to face with the Hindu and different minority communities of Bangladesh… The Authorities of Bharat has taken up the problem with the interim Authorities of Bangladesh in addition to on a number of world platforms. The ABPS urges the Authorities of Bharat to make all doable efforts to make sure the safety, dignity and wellbeing of Hindu neighborhood in Bangladesh together with partaking the Authorities of Bangladesh in steady and significant dialogue.”
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The ABPS known as upon Hindu communities worldwide to face in solidarity with their counterparts in Bangladesh and to amplify their voices towards “a scientific and politically motivated marketing campaign of persecution”.
“The ABPS is of the opinion that it’s incumbent on worldwide organizations just like the UN and world neighborhood to take critical be aware of the inhumane therapy meted out to Hindus and different minority communities in Bangladesh and pressurize the Bangladesh authorities to place a halt to those violent actions,” it said.
With inputs from Vikas Pathak