The Worldwide Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) stated on Saturday that one among its temples and a centre in Bangladesh had been gutted after they had been set on hearth by miscreants.
“It appears that evidently atrocities in opposition to minorities in Bangladesh are persevering with unabated. At present, within the wee hours, our centre and temple had been burnt down. We’re deeply pained,” Radharamn Das, vice-president of ISKCON, Kolkata, and spokesperson, instructed the media.
Das stated the alleged arson and vandalism befell between 2 and three am on Saturday.
“One other ISKCON Namhatta Centre burned down in Bangladesh. The Deities of Sri Sri Laxmi Narayan and all gadgets contained in the temple, had been burned down utterly. The middle is positioned in Dhaka,’ Radharamn Das shared in a publish on X.
“Early morning immediately, between 2-3 AM, miscreants set hearth to the Shri Shri Radha Krishna Temple and the Shri Shri Mahabhagya Lakshmi Narayan Temple, which fall underneath the Hare Krishna Namhatta Sangha, positioned in Dhour village, underneath then jurisdiction of Turag Police Station, Dhaka district. The fireplace was initiated by lifting the tin roof behind the temple and utilizing petrol or octane,” Das stated in his publish.
Protests have damaged out in West Bengal and different elements of India over the arrest of ISKCON monk Chinmoy Krishna Das in Dhaka final month. Das, who was accused of treason, had been main protests in opposition to alleged atrocities on minorities in Bangladesh.
ISKCON had claimed earlier that a lot of its centres and temples had been being forcibly shut down in Bangladesh. Das had additionally urged devotees and monks within the neighbouring nation to be discreet and never put on tilak or saffron garb in public.
The problem was additionally raised within the Lok Sabha with BJP members urging the federal government to make sure the protection of Hindus and ISKCON followers in Bangladesh.
A non-public hospital and a few docs in Moist Bengal had introduced that they’d not deal with Bangladeshi sufferers, whereas inns in Malda have additionally barred company from the neighbouring nation.
