NEW DELHI: Protest erupted across multiple cities including outside the Bangladesh high commission in Delhi, to condemn the mob lynching of Dipu Chandra Das, a Hindu worker in Bangladesh.In Delhi outside Dhaka's mission visuals showed Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) protesters breaking barricades and clashing with police.
Security was beefed up around the commission in the national capital following the protest call by the VHP.
Meanwhile, Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh, Pranay Verma was summoned to Bangladesh’s ministry of foreign affairs, reported Prothom Alo.One protester sobbingly said, “Hindus are being killed there.
This country is of Ram and Krishna we don’t kill anyone, there our sisters and daughters are being assaulted."
VHP and other Hindu organisations also held a protest in Bhopal over the atrocities in Bangladesh.
On Monday, Hindu Jagran Manch & Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) jointly staged a protest in front of the Bangladesh visa application centre over atrocities against minorities in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has suspended visa services at its high commission in New Delhi as well as at its missions in Tripura and Siliguri, citing “unavoidable circumstances”, amid protests outside its diplomatic premises.
The move came days after India temporarily halted visa operations at its Chittagong mission following an attempt by protesters to breach the compound.
Earlier on Wednesday, India summoned Bangladesh’s envoy and conveyed strong concerns over threats by extremist elements to diplomatic mission and minority communities. On December 21, the ministry of external affairs rejected what it described as false narratives of security lapses at Bangladesh’s High Commission in Delhi, maintaining that the protests were brief and effectively managed.
New Delhi also urged Dhaka to ensure justice in the lynching of Hindu man Dipu Chandra Das.Dhaka hints at reviewing diplomatic presenceBangladesh’s interim government indicated that it could reassess the scale of its diplomatic presence in India if the situation deteriorates further. The remarks by foreign affairs adviser M Touhid Hossain came shortly after India dismissed reports in sections of Bangladeshi media on protests outside the High Commission in Delhi as “misleading propaganda”.“Regarding the Indian press note, we completely reject it, entirely reject it. The issue has been presented as if it were very simple, whereas in reality it is not,” state-run news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) quoted Hossain as saying at a media briefing.
Hadi, a prominent organiser of last year’s 'July Uprising,' was shot at close range and later died while receiving treatment abroad. His death sparked widespread protests in Bangladesh.Tensions further escalated when Dipu Chandra Das, a young Hindu factory worker in Mymensingh was lynched by a mob. Hindu organisations and minority rights groups protested in Dhaka, alleging that Das was falsely accused of religious defamation. India has since raised concerns over the safety of minorities and the security of diplomatic missions, rejecting what it called misleading narratives from Dhaka.