Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed the NGO-activist Priya Saha to move with a soft attitude amidst condemnation of the ruling party leaders and ministers against US President Donald Trump’s torture of minorities in Bangladesh. The ruling Awami League general secretary, Obaidul Quader, on Saturday also called for a severe punishment for Priya Saha’s statement, calling it a “seditious act”.
After a meeting of religious minorities in Washington, representatives of countries around the world went to the White House on Wednesday and complained to Priya Trump that the number of minorities in the face of persecution in Bangladesh was declining. Even then, Muslim fundamentalists who are in political asylum are constantly being persecuted. It was only after this that one of the leaders of the ruling party started to describe Prayer’s work as an ‘anti-government conspiracy’. The attack on netizens on social sites outweighs modesty. Pro-government protesters staged a protest in front of Priya’s house in Dhaka on Saturday. On Sunday, two separate cases were filed against Priya for sedition. The law ministry of the government had begun to crack down on the case. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is now in London. After the obaidul Quader announced his directive in the afternoon, the Law Minister waved his hand. In the afternoon, both the cases against Priya were dismissed.
Within the attack, a section of netizens came out in support of Pryor’s statement. Taslima Nasreen, an exiled author from Bangladesh 20 years ago, wrote on Facebook: ‘Priya Saha has rarely said what Trump has said. Very measured time. In the words of Taslima, discrimination and persecution against religious minorities continues in Bangladesh. Taslima had to leave the country because of the novel ‘shame’ on attacking minorities in the backdrop of communal conflict. Imran H Sarkar, a spokesperson for the People’s Movement, wrote on Facebook in support of Priya’s statement. With official data, he has shown that the figures given to Trump are not inaccurate. Imran writes, “To prove Priya Saha’s statement wrong, before she returns home, all communal traitors must be punished with severe punishment.
In the meantime, Priya Saha supported the defense by posting a video on YouTube. There, he claimed, he got his figures from government data. At the time of partition of India in 1979, the religious minority in East Pakistan was 5 percent of the population. In present-day Bangladesh, it has fallen to 5 percent. A study report of 20 states says that 42 per cent of the minority people are coming down from Bangladesh every day. Source: Ananda Bazar Patrika
