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GUWAHATI:
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the rising attacks connected number Hindus successful Bangladesh were a substance of heavy interest and called for extending motivation enactment to the assemblage successful the neighbouring country.
“What is happening successful Bangladesh is profoundly worrying for us. As the incidents of attacks connected the Hindus whitethorn person their effects successful Assam, we volition person to stay cautious and show the situation,” helium told journalists connected Tuesday (January 6, 2026).
He said the worsening concern successful Bangladesh and grounds of increasing jihadist activities successful Assam implicit the past 10 years pointed to a information menace unless the geopolitical concern successful the neighbourhood improves.
Protests successful Paris
Concerns implicit the attacks connected minorities successful Muslim-majority Bangladesh were besides raised successful Paris. Members of a Hindu-Buddhist-Christian forum staged a protestation objection astatine the Republic Square successful the superior of France, demanding exemplary punishment for those who killed Dipu Chandra Das connected mendacious blasphemy charges.
Members of the Paris portion of Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council and the Bureau of Human Rights and Justice (BHRJ) besides condemned the murders of Khokon Das and Amrito Mandal, portion demanding the unconditional merchandise of Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishnadas Prabhu.
The protestors said that Dhaka, aft the autumn of the Sheikh Hasina government, has been pursuing the docket of making the state Hindu-free.
“At slightest 187 Hindus person been killed successful the past year, 221 Hindu women raped, portion thousands of Hindu homes and businesses person been attacked, vandalised, and torched. At slightest 169 Hindu teachers of schools, colleges, and universities person been forced to resign oregon dismissed from service,” the BHRJ said successful a connection connected Tuesday (January 6).
Demanding an extremity to each forms of atrocities connected Hindus and different minorities successful Bangladesh, BHRJ president Dipan Mitra said that targeting Hindus by accusing them of blasphemy and occupying Hindu monasteries and temples has go regular successful Bangladesh.
