The responsibility to protect the life, property and right of minorities to practice their religion rests on the majority community, the signatories noted with concern “the lapses in ensuring this protection in both India and Bangladesh.”
In West Bengal, prominent public figures including academicians, theater personalities, writers, film actors, directors, political leaders have issued an appeal. sheikh hasina government To track people involved Durga Puja pandals and temples vandalized in Bangladesh And punish these elements.
In an open letter issued on Sunday night, more than 60 signatories regretted that “members of the Hindu community” in Bangladesh could not go ahead with their biggest festival, Durga Puja, at several places in the wake of incidents of attacks and untoward incidents at various places. Couldn’t convince Puja pandal.”
“Certainly a major disaster has been averted by the prompt response of the Bangladesh government and police, but the efforts of the forces to oppose the liberal, non-sectarian thinking of Bangobandhu published from the 71st Freedom Struggle has disturbed the conscious, who are believers of humanity,” the letter said.
The responsibility to protect the life, property and right of minorities to practice their religion rests on the majority community, the signatories noted with concern “the lapses in ensuring this protection in both India and Bangladesh.”
Among the signatories were educationist Pabitra Sarkar, CPI(M) politburo member Mohammed Salim, former Kolkata Mayor Bikash Bhattacharya, theater personality Deb Shankar Halder, writer Nabkumar Basu, theater personality Kaushik Sen, filmmaker Kamleshwar Mukhopadhyay, actors Parambrata Chatterjee, Riddhi Sen. , Ritwik Chakraborty. , among others.
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