Yesterday, leaders of the Students' Anti-Discrimination Movement demanded an immediate ban on ISKCON and warned that they would not allow the religious organisation to implement "Delhi's policy in Bangladesh". They also said conspiracies are being hatched to destabilise the country but they will not allow "minority theories" to divide the country. The student leaders made the comments at two separate events in Chattogram and Dhaka.
"ISKCON is acting as a proxy of the Awami League and is trying to destabilise the country. This extremist group is behind the brutal murder of Saiful Islam," Student Anti-Discrimination Movement leader Hasnat Abdullah said at a rally at Tiger Pass junction in Chattogram. He said Bangladesh is a country of coexistence and extremism of any kind has no place here. "We will work to protect the
rights of everyone. But there will be no space for those who try to run an extremist organisation under the guise of religion. My brother Saiful was brutally murdered. ISKCON must be banned as a terrorist organisation." The rally also called for justice for the murder of lawyer Saiful Islam Arif and urged the authorities to arrest the culprits within 24 hours.
Speaking at the event, Sargis Alam, member of the Jatiya Nagolik Committee and general secretary of the July Martyrs Memorial Foundation, said, "General Sanatanis of this country are peace-loving, but the minions of dictator Hasina are trying to incite ISKCON to create a volatile situation. But we will not tolerate it as long as we are alive." Earlier the same day, student leaders participated in the second Namaz-e-Janaza for Saiful Islam at Jamiatul Falah Mosque in the port city's Wasa Junction. In the capital, Abdul Hanan Masood, chief organizer of the Student Platform, asserted at a rally at the central Shaheed Minar that ISKCON is working on the instructions of Awami League president Sheikh Hasina to implement Delhi's policies in Bangladesh. "But their plan to pit Hindus and Muslims of this country against each other will never succeed." He said he would not tolerate any conspiracies in the future.
"Awami League collaborators are still hiding out in many places and are trying to destabilise the country in various ways. We have decided that wherever they are found, they will be beaten by the public and handed over to the police.
” Umama Fatema, spokesperson for the platform, said that after August 5, Sheikh Hasina's last trump card was the attack on minorities. "She wanted to create the impression that an Islamic revolution is happening in Bangladesh, that Muslims are threatening
Hindus, and that Hindus are not safe in this country. The whole conspiracy was orchestrated by India." She alleged that Indian media has been aggressively promoting minority issues in Bangladesh since August 5. Criticizing the caretaker government for failing to address the propaganda allegedly spread by India, Umama said, "I think it is the government's responsibility to let the world know that India is doing propaganda against Bangladesh through the media... But we have observed that the government has been tolerant towards India. ” She also said that Bangladesh's peaceful domestic policy is perceived as a threat to India's pro-Hindu policy. "We must remain vigilant in politics so that neither India nor the Awami League can politicize the minority issue." Central coordinator Mahin Sarkar said, "ISKCON is an extremist organisation. We demand their ban...But we must not fall into the trap that the Awami League has set for us. Everyone needs to remain calm and patient."
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