ISKCON devotees in Kolkata sing ‘bhajan’ and protests outside Bangladesh Deputy High Commission following the incident where an ISKCON temple in Bangladesh was vandalised and a devotee was killed by a mob.
Vice-President of ISKCON, Kolkata, Radharaman Das condemned the attack on the ISKCON temple in Bangladesh and urged Prime Minister Modi to hold talks with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to end the cycle of violence.
“We called PM residence and requested his secretary to inform PM that he should speak with Bangladesh PM to end this cycle of violence. Yesterday, around 500 mobs entered our temple premises and broke deities, brutally injured devotees. Two of them died,” Mr Das.
The mob vandalised ISKCON
Violence emitted after news spread via online media that the Quran was purportedly spoiled at a Durga Puja pandal close to Nanuar Dighi lake in Comilla town. The mob that vandalised the ISKCON temple in Noakhali was somewhere around 500 in number and fiercely set upon priests and aficionados the same.
The mob broke the locked gate and attacked the temple, the priests and devotees. They entered and ransacked the rooms, shattered glass and manhandled the priests.
One devotee, who was on the ghats and could not run away to wellbeing, was whipped and killed, his body was tossed in the lake according to the sources. The man’s body was pulled out of the lake on Saturday morning and he was recognized as 26-year-old Pranta Chandra Das.
One of the brahmacharis, Nimai Krishna Das, was injured so seriously on the head that he needed to get around 30 stitches. He is hospitalized and in a serious state.
Inside the temple area, the assailants had set fire aimlessly. Recordings shot by observers showed several motorcycles, raths and statuary were found gutted. In the wake of the assault on the ISKCON sanctuary, prohibitory orders have been forced in the Noakhali locale.
The defacing at the ISKCON temple is the most recent in the series of assaults on Hindu places of worship in Bangladesh this week. A few nearby media reports guaranteed that Durga Puja pandals and icons were vandalized in Bangladesh.
Following Comilla brutality, episodes of defacing were additionally revealed from temples in Chandpur’s Hajiganj, Chattogram’s Banshkhali and Cox’s Bazar’s Pekua.
Paramilitary powers were conveyed in 22 locales after four individuals kicked the bucket in the following brutality while a few others were harmed, according to Bangladesh media reports.
