In the middle of the news about Hindy attacks in Bangladesh, the temporary leader Muhammad Yunus urged the minority community to say, “I’m Hind, protect me”. Rather, he stressed that the Hindes should exercise their rights as a Bangladeshi citizen rather than appeal to protection only to their “religion”.
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When Sheikh Hasina was expelled in 2024, Muhammad Yunus was commissioned to revive the Bangladeshi fighting economy.
One of his key challenges was the transformation of the country’s foreign policy in accordance with these renewed priorities. However, Yunus seemed rapidly succumbed to the growing anti-index sentiment on the streets and the growing political influence of extremist factions.
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The main concerns were growing attacks on Hindu minorities and vandalism of Hindu temples.
(Files) In this photo taken on May 19, 2025, the internal view of the central office building in Bangladesh Awami League, which was damaged during the mass rebellion, is displayed in Dhace. As soon as the Bangladesh’s largest political party was, Awami League was banned because its leader Sheikh Hasina was overthrown last year in a mass rebellion. Now his supporters represent protests with lightning and resist the ban when the country prepares for elections in which the party is banned. (Photo: Munir Zaman / AFP) The police are holding a war veteran from 1971 and several people, including university professors, after the crowd disrupted the discussion program and called them the accomplices of the “released fascist regime”, in Dhace in Bangladesh, Thursday, August 28, 2025.
Yunus continuously rejected reports of violence against Hindy in Bangladesh, described them as “false news” and denied any failure of his government to protect religious minorities.
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“First, these are false news. You can’t go by those. False news,” Yunus said in an interview with journalist Mehdi Hasan, responding to demonstrations of Hindus and international criticism, including US President Donald Trump, who called violence in Bangladesh. “
When Hasan quoted documented cases of crowd attacks, temples vandalism and the arrest of a Hindu monk for raising a religious flag, Yunus doubled. He even made an unfounded claim to India and said, “One of the Indian specialties is now a false news. Okay, fire fake messages.”
Attack on Hindus in Bangladesh: Data does not speak any lies
As for the attacks on Hindy in Bangladesh, the situation deteriorated in April 2025, when the Hindu community leader was kidnapped and killed. In July, more than 2,400 incidents focused on minorities, including murder, torture, rape and forced conversions, documented more than 2,400 incidents.
In his statement on July 30, Human Rights Watch said that the temporary government would not “not achieve its demanding human rights agenda”. He said that violations of ethnic and other minority groups continued in some parts of Bangladesh.
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In August, the Indian Minister for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh told Parliament that the Indian government has since 2021 to identify at least 3,582 incidents of violence against minorities in Bangladesh.
Singh answered the question of Rajya Sabha and said that the government closely follows violence and atrocities against religious minorities in neighboring countries, including Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
“The Indian government has shared its concerns about this matter with the Bangladesh government, including at the highest level, with the expectation that the Bangladesh government will take all the necessary measures to ensure the safety and good living conditions of hinds and other minorities,” he said.
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Singh also remarked that India has raised concerns with Pakistan more than 334 main incidents with minority violence.
In October 2025, there were new reports accusing the Bangladeshi army of violence against indigenous communities, including Hind and Buddhists.
On October 2, which focused on the 60s of the UN Council for Human Rights (UNHRC) in Geneva, Suhas Chakma, director of the Group for Risk and Risk analysis, accused the Bangladeshi army of killing at least three indigenous people and injured 40 others in Guimara Village in Chittagong Hill Trapees.
Bangladesh’s instability “concerning” remains one year away
One year after Ouster Sheikh Hasiny, Bangladesh remains closed by political and social instability. The dispute related to elections, growing violence in the crowds, attacks on opposition groups and growing hostility towards the minority communities have intensified under Yunus.
Yunus is locked in Standoff with the Bangladeshi Nationalist Party (BNP), led by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia. BNP promotes elections in December or February, while Yunus insisted that it would not take place before April.
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Meanwhile, the interim government opened the political space for Islamist groups, when it was heavily suppressed under the ex has. At the same time, the leaders of students who led the 2024 uprising launched a new political party and demanded deep election reforms and even an overwritten institute. They warned that no elections would be accepted if these requirements were not met, and.
Meanwhile, many hard Islamists have either fled from prison or have been released, and Jamaat-E-Islami, the largest Islamic party of the country that has a controversial past, now seeking a role in the government.
First these are fake messages. You can’t go by those. False messages.
He often bitterly criticizes BNP, compares it to Hasin Awami League, and recently organized a massive assembly in Dhace as a show of power. Critics fear that the greater influence of Islamic forces could further sort the Bangladesh political landscape.
(With the entry from agencies)
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