Certain quarters with vested pursuits tarnishing Bangladesh’s picture: PM Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stated on Sunday that sure quarters with vested pursuits have been disseminating propaganda to create communal divide and tarnish the picture of Bangladesh, because the nation recovers from a slew of violence in opposition to Hindus and mob assaults on temples throughout Durga Puja festivities, in line with a media report.
Attacks on Hindu temples intensified in Bangladesh since October 13 after an alleged blasphemous publish surfaced on social media in the course of the Durga Puja celebrations. On the night time of October 17, a mob broken 66 homes and set on hearth at the very least 20 houses of Hindus in Bangladesh.
“No one can make Bangladesh go backwards. Some of the incidents that we occasionally see are orchestrated. It is being done intentionally so that Bangladesh’s image is damaged,” Prime Minister Hasina was quoted as saying by bdnews24.com.

Speaking in the course of the inauguration of the Payra bridge in southern Bangladesh, Hasina stated that “certain quarters with vested interests are disseminating propaganda aimed at creating a communal divide”. She, nonetheless, didn’t title anybody.
“No matter how much good work we do, there is a quarter that is occupied with discrediting Bangladesh. What do they want? They don’t want the normal democratic process to continue in this country,” she stated, urging individuals to be cautious of the makes an attempt to destabilise the nation.
Eight individuals died as communal violence unfold to a number of different districts amid the festivities, the report stated.

The Durga Puja celebrations, thought of to be the most important pageant of the minority Hindu neighborhood in Bangladesh, concluded with out the standard Bijoya Dashami procession.
Bangladesh’s safety companies on Saturday arrested Shaikat Mandal, who’s believed to be the second key suspect behind the current violence. His arrest got here a day after police had nabbed Iqbal Hossain, 35, the important thing suspect from Cox Bazar space.
So far, police have arrested practically 600 individuals from numerous elements of the nation for inciting violence in opposition to the Hindus in the course of the Durga Puja festivities.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Hasina instructed her residence minister to provoke instant motion in opposition to those that incited violence utilizing faith as she requested the individuals to not belief something on social media with out fact-checking.

The Foreign Ministry in a press release underlined that the Government of Bangladesh “unequivocally condemned those incidents and took serious note of the reactions from within and outside the Hindu community.”
The violence has been extensively condemned by the United Nations.
UN’s resident coordinator in Bangladesh Mia Seppo stated that the assaults on Hindus are in opposition to the values of the nation’s Constitution and must cease.
Hindus represent round 10 per cent of the Muslim-majority Bangladesh’s 169 million inhabitants.