Present time poses a greater challenge to Bangladesh than 1971

Ever since Sheikh Hasina, the former premier of Bangladesh has resigned and fled her country owing to a massive student unrest, Bangladesh has fallen into a quagmire of dark and morbid anarchy. And like every other time, the 7% Hindus of the beleaguered Nation are worst affected.

1. By every passing hour, gruesome videos are emerging from Bangladesh. Images of horrific massacre of Hindus. The hapless situation of Hindus are making our senses numb.

The scenes of massive destruction and physical violence on the Hindus are bound to give any conscientious person sleepless nights. The situation is absolutely devastating. Such violence, such animalistic barbarism, are being perpetrated by ordinary boys not more than age of 20 to 25. They are products of about 600 Model Madrassas of Bangladesh, which Hasina helped to build.

2. Sheikh Hasina in her 16-year tenure of premiership might have contributed in an unprecedented upliftment of the economic situation of the country taking it from one of the poorest countries of the world to one of the promising and developing Nations of South East Asia, yet on the social and religious front the country had been on a free fall.

Sheikh Hasina complied to the dictates of Jamaat-e- Islami on every single occasion. Through one incident after another, she remained blind to the plight of Bangladeshi Hindus. She dared to threaten India asking Indian Government to protect the minorities in India and meanwhile hobnobbed with China.

She never actively checked on the flourishing anti-India sentiments in Bangladesh, strengthened the hands of Jamaat-e-Islami, yielded to the demands of Islamic fundamentalists, and routinely turned a deaf ear to the cries of thousands of Hindu girls raped and abducted. Today, she is in India, begging for shelter while the international community who had praised her during the Rohingya crisis has closed doors on her. Her request for political asylum from UK is still pending for approval.

This is Karma. You cannot escape it.

3. Her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, couldn’t escape it either. In the aftermath of Partition in 1947 and the bloodiest riots that ensued in the following days, millions of hapless Hindus fled their homes to take shelter in India as refugees, leaving behind their home, hearth and everything. Pakistan Government termed those Hindus fleeing the country as enemy and started usurping their properties by enactment of the Enemy Property Act.

In 1971, East Pakistan was liberated and Bangladesh was formed. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the first Prime Minister of the Nation.

What Mujib did was perpetuation of the Enemy Property Act albeit in a different name. He changed the name of the act to Vested Property Act and left all the provisions of the Act unchanged.

The right thing for him to do was to repeal the Act altogether as a mark of gratitude to Hindus who sided with his Awami League, fought in the Liberation War and above everything for the support that Hindu India provided.

But Mujibur Rahman was a true Muslim. His already bloodied hands from Great Calcutta Killings in 1946, could not be used for any benefit of Hindus. So he allowed the Act to continue as an effective tool to grab millions of acres of properties of Hindus.

There are ample recorded evidences showing that Mujibur Rahman never wanted a Bangladesh free from Pakistan. He wanted full autonomy being a part of Pakistan so that he can have his share of the revenue and position.

But Deep State strategised, instigated, and eventually brought about the Independence of Bangladesh, liberating the people of East Pakistan from the barbaric tyranny of the colonizing West Pakistan.

Mujib on assuming office, invited Zulfiqar Bhutto to Dhaka in 1974 with full state honour and was in the process of re-estabilishing ties with Pakistan bypassing India. He always respected the Kaum factor.

Mujibur Rahman and Awami League did horrible torture on Hindus in independent Bangladesh. Ample references for the same can be found in popular culture like in novels and drama.

References for the Enemy Property Act information can also be found in the book ‘Lajja’ by Taslima Nasrin.

4. I intend to put up the facade of a ‘Bhadralok’, a quintessential Bengali gentleman, who raises a storm over a cup of tea about war crimes in Gaza, but remains indifferent to the plight of Bengali Hindus for fear of hurting ‘minority’ sentiments.

Let’s face it. Islamic fundamentalism is a malady that has gripped the world today like a pandemic. My dear aquaintances, who are poised with the belief, it is high time now for them to introspect.

5. Meanwhile what are the Hindus worldwide doing. Are we busy with our career, politics, stock markets, ITR, annual trips and festival shopping. For how long can we afford this luxury of being oblivious to the fire in Bangladesh.

Before this calamity, this fire engulfs us – the rest of the Hindus, what do we do ?

We need to wake up today, speak up today.

We need to hold hands as Hindus. We need to coordinate and cement ties among Hindus who are willing to protect their Sanatan legacy. We demand for defining the rights of Hindus as a majority in Bharat and implementation of laws for effective defending of Hindu rights.

We demand for the creation of a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ – constitutionally, morally and spiritually. Creation of a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ alone can resist the barbaric aggression of proselytising Semitic religion. This torture on Hindus over a millennia must be stopped.

And finally we pray, wholeheartedly, with complete earnestness to Lord Sri Krishna to extend His Sudarshan Chakra to decimate Adharma and the Adharmik.

Khalasya nasham suviparyayam cha I

Satam pravruddhim sadanugruhastavam II

– Mr Shovan Sengupta, Kolkata (Courtesy : ‘Truth’, Volume 92, Number 19; 23.8.2024)

We need to hold hands as Hindus, coordinate and cement ties among Hindus who are willing to protect their Sanatan legacy !