India outraged over B’desh lynching

December 26, 2025

Abhishek Vij

India played a crucial role in the creation of Bangladesh by dividing Pakistan in the 1971 war. India had hoped that a secular country would be its neighbor. Since its inception, the Bangladeshi economy has been heavily reliant on Indian exports. However, fanaticism and communalism do not respect economic values.

Although the head of the caretaker government in Bangladesh is Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, he is helpless in the face of the ongoing communal violence. As soon as elections were announced in Bangladesh, the first victim was Sheikh Hasina’s opponent, student leader Usman Hadi, who was murdered. During this time, a 25-year-old Hindu youth, Deepu Das, who worked in a garment factory, was beaten to death by a mob on charges of alleged blasphemy, and his body was then hanged and burned. Now, new reports are emerging that atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh are increasing. Their homes are being burned down. These reports have sparked a wave of anger in India.

Across the country, Vishva Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal activists are protesting against Bangladesh. Outrage has spread throughout India. In Delhi, West Bengal, and other states, large numbers of people are gathering to protest at the Bangladeshi High Commission. However, the Delhi Police and paramilitary forces stopped the protesters outside the High Commission. Bangladesh’s cunning move is to spread rumors that the murder of student leader Hadi was carried out by Indian elements. Because of this, Hindu families in Bangladesh have become targets of extremists. The Indian government has said that Bangladesh should stop spreading such rumors and allegations and conduct an impartial investigation into the murder of student leader Hadi. A formal protest has also been lodged with the Bangladeshi High Commission.

In Kolkata, police lathi-charged protesting crowds of the Vishva Hindu Parishad, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, and Hindu Jagran Manch, injuring several people. The lathi-charge occurred when the protesting crowd, demonstrating against the atrocities on Hindus, was marching towards the Bangladeshi Deputy High Commission office. Protests against the violence against the Hindu community also took place in Punjab. Demonstrations were held in Fazilka and Giddarbaha in Muktsar district, and an effigy of Bangladesh was burned. The BJP and other Hindu organizations held marches in Jalandhar and Ludhiana. Across the country, there is a demand that the ongoing violence against Hindus be stopped immediately and that the Indian government take strong action. The Indian government has conveyed its strong protest to the Bangladeshi government.

But when reports emerge from Bangladesh suggesting that this unrest is being deliberately instigated by certain elements to potentially postpone the elections, who will care about these protests? Sometimes it is thought that by helping to separate Bangladesh from Pakistan, India may have created another enemy. But let it be remembered, it is not the countries that are the enemies, nor the people of those countries, but rather their so-called leaders who take the easy path of promoting violence and communalism to secure their positions and maintain their rule. In Pakistan, the Shehbaz government and Munir’s army are doing the same thing. In Bangladesh, the dominant corrupt anti-social elements are instigating violence and atrocities against Hindus to secure their power. Remember, this game of violence and communalism ultimately backfires. If the atrocities against Hindus continue in Bangladesh, India will be forced to take strong action.