Amid the political disaster in Bangladesh, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has known as for the deployment of the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping pressure within the neighbouring nation.
She has additionally sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention to guarantee the security and safety of the non secular minorities there.
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“The Authorities of India can take this matter up with the United Nations. So a peacekeeping pressure could be despatched to Bangladesh,” Mamata Banerjee mentioned on Monday whereas addressing the West Bengal Meeting’s winter session.
“Now we have households… properties… and family members in Bangladesh. We settle for no matter stance the Authorities of India takes on this…however we condemn atrocities on non secular grounds wherever on this planet and enchantment to the union authorities, and the Prime Minister, to intervene,” she added.
Her feedback got here days after Hindu chief Chinmoy Krishna Das was arrested and charged with sedition in Bangladesh.
The chief minister additionally mentioned that she had spoken to the chief of ISKCON’s Kolkata unit and prolonged her assist.
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“We won’t tolerate if Indians are attacked in Bangladesh,” she mentioned.
Stating that there was an pressing must rescue persecuted Indians and rehabilitate them on this aspect of the border, the chief minister mentioned, “If required we will rehabilitate the Indians attacked in Bangladesh. Now we have no drawback sharing our ‘one roti’ with them if the necessity arises. There can be no scarcity of meals for them.”
The CM pressured that she wished for concord, fraternal ties and cordial relationships between all communities dwelling in Bangladesh and elsewhere.
Reacting to Banerjee’s feedback, the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) known as it “crocodile tears” and alleged that she herself had focused the Hindu non secular organisations to “consolidate her Muslim vote financial institution”.
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“Mamata Banerjee ought to cease shedding crocodile tears for Hindus in Bangladesh…Not too way back, she had personally focused monks and Hindu non secular organisations just like the Ramakrishna Mission, Bharat Sevashram Sangha and ISKCON in West Bengal, to consolidate her Muslim vote financial institution. 1000’s of saffron-clad sadhus and lakhs of Hindu devotees had hit the streets in Kolkata, in protest,” BJP chief Amit Malviya mentioned in a submit on social media platform X.
