DHAKA: Following widespread turmoil in the nation brought on by the death of a lawyer during skirmishes between Hindu demonstrators and security forces, Bangladesh’s major political parties have urged for calm. As irate fans of vocal Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, who was detained for allegedly disrespecting the Bangladeshi flag at a rally, clashed with police after he was refused bail, public prosecutor Saiful Islam Alif lost his life Tuesday.
Since the dictatorial former premier minister Sheikh Hasina was overthrown by a student-led revolt in August and fled to neighboring India, religious relations have been tense in the 170 million-person Muslim-majority country.
Hasina’s two primary rivals during her 15-year term, the Bangladeshi National Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami, have called for moderation.
The newspaper Prathom Alo reported on Friday that BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir had claimed that Hasina’s Awami League was responsible for the most recent flare-up, referring to a “defeated fascist group.” He told the publication, “This incident is totally unwarranted.” “Everyone is urged to approach the situation calmly, and we strongly condemn it.”
Jemaat’s Shafiqur Rahman accused a “vested group plotting to destabilize the country” of being responsible for the present violence.
Despite this, there have been calls for a ban on the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a multinational Hindu religious organization that Das allegedly belonged to and is also known as the Hare Krishna movement.
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