Bangladesh Unrest: Rokeya Prachy, a Bangladeshi actor and Awami League member, has issued a warning against the rise of anti-India sentiments that are being fuelled by Islamist extremist groups for . Meanwhile, Indian high commissioner Pranay Verma was summoned to the foreign ministry in Dhaka by foreign secretary Asad Alam Siam to protest against “regrettable incidents” outside the Bangladesh high commission in New Delhi.
In another development, Bangladesh high commissioner Riaz Hamidullah was called in by B Shyam, the joint secretary heading the external affairs ministry’s Bangladesh-Myanmar division.
Bangladesh Unrest: Hardcore Criminals Were “Deliberately” Released To Hurt India
Prachy said the Muhammad Yunus government released dozens of Islamist terrorists from jail who were convicted of murder and terror acts. These radicals only target supporters of the Awami League, the 1971 liberation movement, Bangabandhu and the . She also said these radical attacks were granted indemnity and there have been no single case filed against them.
Prachy criticized the approach of Muhammad Yunus, who is leading the interim government of Bangladesh, toward India, citing the targeting of minority groups and manipulated unrest as threats to the stability of Bangladesh. She said Yunus’s approach toward India is detrimental to .
Prachy went on to point organizations such as Jamaat-e-Islami and Hizb ut-Tahrir for systematically inciting hostility against India. Prachy went on to say that the lynching of a Hindu man after the assassination of youth leader were organized efforts by Islamist radical forces to suppress dissent and minority voices.
Rokeya Prachy And Her Troubled Past With Islamist Extremists
In August 2024, Rokeya Prachy was allegedly attack by a violent mob after she went to pay respects to country’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rehman on his martyrdom day.
Prachy had then remarked that they were all supporters and workers of BNP and Jamaat Islami who wanted to kill me. Prachy said her clothes were torn up and she was brutally beaten.
Bangladesh extremists have been abusing, beating and lynching the minority community members and those who voiced their support for the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled the country on August 5.