Bangladesh Chief Advisor said attacks on Hindus were exaggerated

Modi promised protection of minorities; National Award winning actress attacked

Bangladesh's Chief Advisor Mohammad Yunus spoke to PM Narendra Modi on phone on Friday evening. He informed PM Modi about the safety of Hindus and other minorities in Bangladesh.

Yunus told PM Modi that reports of attacks on minorities have been exaggerated. He invited Indian journalists to visit the country to assess the situation and report on the incident from there.

On PM Modi raising the issue of safety of minorities, Yunus said that his government is committed to the safety of all the citizens of the country including minorities. He said that the situation in Bangladesh is now under control and life in the country is becoming normal.

Actress Rokeya Prachi

The government was toppled on the issue of reservation, now people are resorting to violence.

Prachi said that she was attacked because she was a member of the Awami League. She has heard about 1971 but this is bigger than that. Many Hindus have been attacked. Signs of Bangabandhu, who liberated the country, are being erased. They want to change the national anthem. They have done all this by taking the help of the reservation issue.

Prachi said that she does not know who is running the country. They are just committing murders and hanging the bodies. Whatever is happening today is an attempt to wipe out the roots of Bangladesh. I will not compromise on anything now, even at gunpoint.

Bangladeshi actors and actresses have condemned the attack on the actress. Prachi entered films in the 90s. She has worked in many big films. She has also been active in direction and production.

Another actress Suborna Mustafa has also been attacked in Bangladesh. According to Dhaka Tribune, Suborna was at her home on Wednesday night when some people barged in and attacked her. She is safe at the moment. Suborna was a famous actress of the 80s. She has worked in many films and TV serials.

Suborna has also received the country's highest civilian honor. She later joined the Jatiya Sangsad Party. She has been an MP from 2019 to 2024. Earlier, on August 5, actor Shanto Khan and his father Salim Khan were beaten to death amid the violence in the country. Salim Khan was a film producer and was associated with Sheikh Hasina's party.

Difference between Yunus' claims and ground reality

Another Muhammad Yunus is claiming that attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh have been exaggerated, while the reality is that attacks on minority Hindus have increased continuously in violent protests. So far, more than 205 cases of attack on Hindus have been reported. Their houses and temples have been destroyed and burnt. The interim government of Bangladesh also apologized for this last week. Retired Brigadier General Sakhawat Hussain, advisor to the Home Ministry, has said, we failed to protect the Hindu community. We apologize to the Hindu community.

Student leaders will form their own political party. The student leaders

who removed former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power will form their own political party. According to news agency Reuters, four student leaders said that their target is to stop Sheikh Hasina's party from coming to power again.

In Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina's Awami League and Khaleda Zia's BNP party have been forming the government in the last few decades. The students said that they want to end this two-party system. They said that they are considering forming their own new party to implement reforms.

has been attacked in Bangladesh. According to the Bengali newspaper The Daily Star, National Award-winning actress Prachi had reached a candlelight protest on the anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujiburahman on Wednesday evening.

She was demanding an inquiry into the violence that took place during the student movement at Bangabandhu's old residence in Dhanmondi-32, when 30 to 40 people attacked her. They slapped her and tried to push her down.

While talking to India Today, actress Prachi said that those who beat her were Jamaat and BNP workers. Violence was also done to other women present there, their clothes were torn. Prachi said that given the situation in the country, she does not know whether she will be alive tomorrow or not. She does not find anything right in this newly gained freedom.

In Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, attacks took place on Thursday on Awami League workers who had gathered to celebrate the death anniversary of the country's first president and Hasina's father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated on 15 August 1975. Since then, every year on this date, tributes have been paid to him on a large scale. Today, due to fear of clashes, many people remained inside their homes. Shops remained closed across the city. Meanwhile, students attacked Awami League supporters who had come to pay tribute to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with sticks.