Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration (BNP) is on the centre of an issue for web hosting an iftar meal in Sylhet for Hindu individuals with a plater together with pork. The iftar relishes supplied on the venue didn’t have any selection to pork, thereby sparking uproar on social media.
The Iftar birthday party hosted via BNP’s Sylhet unit was once attended via no less than 20 birthday party leaders and Hindu activists on Thursday, in step with experiences in nationwide dailies in Bangladesh. The development is in most cases attended via Muslims and contributors of alternative communities, but if all plates had pork together with different dishes, it brought on indignant reactions.
Even invited reporters from Hindu communities had been reportedly introduced pork. Following the incident, BNP’s native Hindu individuals took to Fb to sentence the organisers.
“Within the absence of any selection to pork, I together with 20 different Hindu colleagues needed to watch the entire Muslim leaders and activists breaking their fasts,” wrote Mantu Nath, a neighborhood BNP member, expressing his anger over the invite.
Describing the association as a farce, Kanak Kanti Das, a neighborhood chief of BNP’s pupil frame, mentioned, “ You loved your iftar and we [Hindu invitees] had been simply left staring at”.
With out providing any apology, BNP Sylhet district leaders later said the pretend pas . This has led some to rewind BNP and Jamaat’s confirmed monitor file of systematic assaults on minorities.
Columnist and Ekushey Padak awardee Ajoy Das Gupta mentioned the army rulers who had taken over and dominated Bangladesh for 15 years legitimised the pro-Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami. Additionally they presented constitutional amendments that undermined the rustic’s secular democratic polity and in spite of everything declared Islam because the state faith of Bangladesh.
He mentioned some events like BNP and its best friend, Jamaat-e-Islami, have attempted to revive the “Pakistan military-fundamentalist style of radical Islam” however failed.
Even right through the 2001-2006 tenure of the BNP, the emergence of Tarique Rahman because the de facto chief of the birthday party was once adopted via a scientific pogrom towards Hindus that ended in large-scale systematic land grabbing, assaults on temples and companies and rape of girls belonging to Hindu group.
Whilst in opposition, BNP has been accused of assisting Jamaat in perpetrating assaults on Hindus right through the conflict crime trials. Involvement of BNP and Jamaat parts has been discovered right through the new assaults right through the 2021 Durga puja violence.
