‘Concentrate on defending personal minorities’: India rejects Bangladesh’s ‘unwarranted feedback’ on Bengal violence

The Ministry of Exterior Affairs on Friday slammed Bangladesh over its ‘unwarranted feedback’ on violence in Bengal over the Waqf Act.

“We reject the remarks made by the Bangladesh facet with regard to the incidents in West Bengal. It is a barely disguised and disingenuous try to attract a parallel with India’s issues over the continuing persecution of minorities in Bangladesh the place the prison perpetrators of such acts proceed to roam free,” MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated.

He added, “As a substitute of constructing unwarranted feedback and indulging in advantage signaling, Bangladesh would do higher to deal with defending the rights of its personal minorities.”

Earlier this week, the central authorities stated that Bangladeshi infiltrators had a task to play within the violence in West Bengal’s Murshidabad. A report from the Union House Ministry stated that these infiltrators had help from native components inside West Bengal.

Bangladesh’s chief advisor on Thursday refuted MHA’s report and stated, “We strongly refute any makes an attempt to implicate Bangladesh within the communal violence in Murshidabad. We urge the Authorities of India and West Bengal to take all steps to completely defend the minority Muslim inhabitants.”

Three individuals have been killed in communal violence in Shamsherganj, Suti, Dhulian and Jangipur areas of Murshidabad district, which has a Muslim majority inhabitants, throughout protests towards the Waqf (Modification) Act on April 11 and 12.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has introduced that her authorities is not going to implement the amended Waqf regulation, which goals to control the administration of Muslim charitable properties.

A number of autos, together with police vans, had been set on fireplace, stones had been hurled at safety forces, and roads had been blocked as violence rocked Malda, Murshidabad, South 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts throughout protests over the brand new laws.

With inputs from businesses