Kolkata: Amid violence on minorities in Bangladesh, Sayan Ghosh, a resident of Belgharia near Kolkata in West Bengal who got injured and had a narrow escape, has returned to Bengal.
Talking with the Free Press Journal (FPJ), Ghosh shares his experience
“On November 23 I went to Dhaka to meet a friend and also had some work. When I went it was peaceful. I was supposed to return back to India on November 26 when I was attacked. My friend and I were near an ice-cream shop when 5-6 people came and asked about my identity and when they heard that I am a Hindu from India they attacked my face with a knife and pelted stones on my head,” said Ghosh.
The 21-year-old Sayan Ghosh also added that his friend and his family were threatened for giving shelter and protecting a Hindu from India.
“My friend tried his level best to save me. The next day his family was threatened as I wanted to complain to police about the attack. The police didn’t help me but, on the contrary, harassed me. I was there in my friend’s house for the next three days and my friend silently took me to the station from where I boarded a train and entered India through the Gede border,” further added the injured person.
Gede is an Indo-Bangladesh bordering area in Nadia district.
Speaking about his treatment, Ghosh said that after several pleadings he had received treatment from Dhaka hospital.
“In the hospital I have seen several fatally injured Hindus admitted there. I had received two stitches on my face and four stitches on the back side of my head,” stated Ghosh.
Apart from Ghosh, a Hindu Bangladesh based journalist was also heckled in Bangladesh the video of which went viral on Sunday.
People who came to India for treatment or visited Bangladesh to their relative’s house and also disturbed with the thought that their properties and lives are at danger.
A woman on anonymity said that she came to India for treatment and is worried about the rest of her family who are in Bangladesh.
Riya Saha, who visited Faridpur in Bangladesh to see her parents returned to India due to the growing attacks on the minorities.
“I have a toddler with me. Even though Faridpur is peaceful so far, we don’t know what is going to happen in the next moment. So, I had to leave my parents house and return back to India in my in-law’s house,” said Riya.
Meanwhile, ISKCON organizes worldwide prayer services for protection of minorities in the neighbouring country.
ISKCON vice president of Kolkata Radharaman Das citing an example from Mahabharata said that across 150 countries the monks of ISKCON will pray to the Almighty for the protection of minorities across the border.
“Two more monks of ISKCON who went to give food and medicine to the arrested monks also got arrested. We can only pray to the Lord so that the situation becomes normal again,” said Radharaman Das.
Swami Parmatmananda of Akhil Bharatiya Sant Manch said that on Monday the monks will visit Petrapole border in Bongaon and will seize the border till any assurance of releasing the arrested monks in Bangladesh and protection of minorities are ensured.
According to sources, several monks of ISKCON were stopped at Benapole border in Bangladesh and were not allowed to enter India.
Bharatiya Janata Party BJP) state president and MoS Sukanta Majumdar said that he will speak with the Minister of external affairs about the boy who got attacked in Dhaka in Bangladesh.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Kunal Ghosh slammed the NDA led central government for not taking ‘prompt’ action.
