West Bengal Assembly LoP and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari along with members of a Hindu outfit hold a demonstration to protest the killing of a Bengali Hindu in Bangladesh near the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata on December 22, 2025. | Photo credit: PTI
Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and Congress leaders protested against the attack on Hindus in the neighboring country outside the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata on Monday (Dec 22, 2025).
The protests were in response to the lynching of Hindu community member Dipu Chandra Das in Bangladesh amid growing unrest in their nation following the death of their popular youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi, who was shot dead in public.
Mr. Adhikari and other Bharatiya Janata Party supporters attempted to march to the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in the Beck Bagan area. Their protest march was joined by many Hindu monks, who were stopped by Kolkata police due to security concerns. Demonstrators clashed with police as they were barred from entering the commission. Effigies of Muhammad Yunus, a senior adviser to Bangladesh’s interim government, were burned on the road.
When they were barred from moving forward, Mr. Adhikari and other protesters staged a sit-in on the road.
They also announced that there would be a protest across the border areas in West Bengal on December 24 if no action was taken against Das’ lynching in Bangladesh. Mr Adhikari said he would head back to the Deputy High Commission on December 26 to protest.
“We will not let this issue go. Dipu Das was burnt alive. We will not allow them to sit here (at the Bangladesh High Commission),” Mr Adhikari said as he returned from the protest.
The protesters carried placards saying “We want revenge for the murder of Dipu Das”.
Congress workers also staged a similar protest in front of the Deputy High Commission hours before the BJP. They were also stopped by the Kolkata police before they could enter the commission’s office to file a deputation.
“We have come to share this message and urge the Bangladesh Deputy Commissioner so that every community in Bangladesh can live together in peace,” said one Congress leader. They raised slogans of “Vande Mataram” and demanded an end to violence against minority Hindus in Bangladesh in the name of politics and religion.
Published – 22 Dec 2025 19:52 IST
