Citizenship Amendment Act will not help us: Bangladesh Hindu leader to Indian journalists

[Black_cats]

Citizenship Amendment Act will not help us: Bangladesh Hindu leader​

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with devotees at Sree Dhakeshwari National Temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh. File photo | Photo Credit: PTI

Kallol BhattacherjeeDHAKA: JUNE 09, 2022 08:37 IST
UPDATED: JUNE 09, 2022 10:05 IST

A leading member of the Hindu community of Bangladesh has said that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) of India will not help them deal with the challenges ahead.

Interacting with a visiting team of Indian journalists on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, Monindra Kumar Nath, President, Mohanagar Sarbojoneen Puja Committee said that the community’s real aim is to have a minority affairs ministry and a special permanent commission for the minority religious communities.

“We do not welcome this special law from India. Such laws are not helpful. We do have certain problems like many others but we are from Bangladesh and we will remain here. No one wants to leave his or her motherland and take refuge in a neighbouring country. People leave their roots only in extremely unfortunate circumstances and there is no certainty for their future in such situations. We will deal with whatever challenges we have by mobilising our community in a coordinated manner within our country,” said M. Nath who is also the Joint General Secretary of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council.

Activists join a procession demanding justice for the violence against Hindu communities during Durga Puja festival in Dhaka on October 18, 2021. File photo | Photo Credit: REUTERS

The Sheikh Hasina government faced a major challenge last year when a communal disturbance broke out in Brahmanbaria and Comilla in the eastern part of the party and spread quickly to Chittagong. The phase witnessed mob attacks on the Durga puja pandals. But Mr. Nath said that the number of Durga puja celebrations in the country has in fact nearly doubled during the last 12 years, from 10-15,000 to 30,000. The Mahanagar Sarbojoneen Puja Committee is the central religious body of the Hindu community in Bangladesh as it grants permission to community members to hold Durga puja celebrations across the country.

Mr. Deb acknowledged that the Sheikh Hasina government has been proactive in dealing with majoritarian tendencies, though some sporadic incidents of intimidation of the minority Hindu community is reported from time to time. He said that over the years, representation of the community has also increased in Bangladesh. “We have increased representation in the bureaucracy and in the law and order machinery. But we need to have a minority affairs minister and that is what we are campaigning for. That apart, there should also be a minority affairs commission that will ensure rights of the minority groups in the country,” said Mr. Nath.

India enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act in 2019, though the Government is yet to frame the rules of the Act. The law is aimed at granting citizenship to the persecuted members of the Hindu, Buddhist, Parsi, Christian, Sikh and Jain communities of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

Mr. Nath said that the Sheikh Hasina government has reached out to the minority communities and has helped the historic Dhakeshwari temple of Dhaka in regaining the property that it had lost earlier. Bangladesh is also building a Buddhist pilgrimage centre in Lumbini, Nepal, which will cater to the Buddhist pilgrims from all over the world.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government has a Ministry of Religious Affairs. The Ministry looks after the issues involving all mosques, temples, churches, pagodas and Gurdwaras in Bangladesh. Mr. Nath argued that the issue of a separate ministry will be part of the agenda of the minority communities as the country gets into election mode for next year.

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[UKBengali]

Why would BD Hindus have any interest in migrating to India?

Nearly 2 million BD'shi Hindus have returned in the last decade after they realised that things were better in BD.

As BD industrialisation powers ahead of India over the next 20-30 years, they will find that living even as a minority in tolerant BD would be even more better than living as a majority in Hinduvta India.

 

[Tom-tom]

Why would BD Hindus have any interest in migrating to India?

Nearly 2 million BD'shi Hindus have returned in the last decade after they realised that things were better in BD.

As BD industrialisation powers ahead of India over the next 20-30 years, they will find that living even as a minority in tolerant BD would be even more better than living as a majority in Hinduvta India.

These people are an double edged sword, they will scam and con bd institutions, banks and people and send it back to India where they will live like Kings

 

[Areesh]

You should kick all kafirs out of bd

Why kick out?

Why not keep them for forced labor? BD has a fast growing economy and it needs free labor for sure

Think big pajeet

 

[my2cents]

Why kick out?

Why not keep them for forced labor? BD has a fast growing economy and it needs free labor for sure

Think big pajeet

Entire Bd is a sweatshop of low wage labor. They will just blend in, alright. But, Hindu given a chance will jump ship for greener pastures.

 

[Areesh]

Entire Bd is a sweatshop of low wage labor. They will just blend in, alright. But, Hindu given a chance will jump ship for greener pastures.

Why low wage labor when BD can use Hindus for free?

BD needs to immediately work on this

 

[my2cents]

Why low wage labor when BD can use Hindus for free?

BD needs to immediately work on this

That would be slave labor, which is against Islam. Being a Muslim you should know that.

 

[fallstuff]

This thread was looking interesting until it took a turn on a road to nowhere.

 

[Abu Shaleh Rumi]

These people are an double edged sword, they will scam and con bd institutions, banks and people and send it back to India where they will live like Kings

I dont like the way they (hindu, buddhist) interact with indian high commission.

 

[jamahir]

You should kick all kafirs out of bd. They have no loyalty towards BD. Pak knew that and killed all Hindu intellectuals first in 1971 and then killed you alike for your disloyalty. When a majority can be disloyal to its own country, what can you expect from a minority hindu community.

You are only presenting your Hindutvadi fascist / terrorist mind in saying this.

Why low wage labor when BD can use Hindus for free?

BD needs to immediately work on this

Here comes the stupid mullah.

 

[Cheepek]

That's the only thing he can say to keep his head intact with his body.
Says law not helpful, but doesn't give any reason.
Take a sigh of relief till Sheikh Hasina is in power, we are here, you are here, let's see how you don't turn out to be one more Jogendra Nath Mandal.

 

[Areesh]

Here comes the stupid mullah.

Here comes the commie pig

That would be slave labor, which is against Islam. Being a Muslim you should know that.

But we are all evil as per you guys so why not

 

[Novus ordu seclorum]

Best thing is to get over politics of religion. Thousands of years of ethnicity, ancestry, and history do not change by shifting locations.

 

[my2cents]

You are only presenting your Hindutvadi fascist / terrorist mind in saying this.

How so? How can you be disloyal to your country?

 

[jamahir]

Here comes the commie pig

And it is precisely the commie "pig" ( actually a cat ) who states that the mullah is an oppressor, a feudal, an ardent Capitalist who extracts labor from a worker without arranging for the worker the compensation for his or her labor in form of arranging a welfare-based society where he or she can potentially have access to all the goods and services in the society in a manner equal to the work giver. The mullah is ever against human rights, equality and dignity. The mullah has brought into Islam the very anti-Islamic concept of the priesthood, the clergy, the agent between Human and God, a separate power-hungry political, social and socio-economic class that was supposed to have been prohibited in Islam.

How so? How can you be disloyal to your country?

"To your country" ? The concept of the country, the Nation State, is a recent, artificial one coming from the French Revolution of the late 1700s whose aims AFAIK were to abolish the traditional monarchy and feudalism. Tipu Sultan , the progressive ruler of Mysore, was the first administrator in India to be inspired by the French Revolution and he is said to have supported the institution of the Jacobin Club of Mysore :

The Jacobin Club of Mysore was the first Revolutionary Republican organization to be formed in India. It was founded in 1794 by French Republican officers with the support of Tipu Sultan, named after the Jacobin Club in France. He planted a Liberty Tree and declared himself Citizen Tipoo.[1]

When the Jacobin Club of Mysore sent a delegation to Tipu Sultan, 500 Mysore rockets were launched as part of the gun salute.

Francis Ripauld was elected President-Citizen, and the Jacobins declared their hatred for all kings except Citizen Tipu[2] and loyalty to the Republic.[3]

The British regarded the link-up of Revolutionary Jacobin forces and Indian resistance as an extremely dangerous development. In the subsequent Fourth Anglo-Mysore war in 1799 against Tipu, the British forced the surrender of French military personnel in Hyderabad, citing their "most virulent principles of Jacobinism."[4]

In a 2005 paper, historian Jean Boutier argued that the club's existence was fabricated by the East India Company to justify British military intervention against Tipu.

If Tipu had lived into the mid-1800s having gradually kicked out the British, the Danish and the Portuguese from India he would have gone further down the line in revolutionary thought and would have been the first Communist administrator who would have spread Communism in all the Indian regions. Communism among its other few desires seeks to end the artificial separation of humans that happens through the artificial walls called national borders which may hide oppressive and anti-human regimes within and then maintain huge militaries to protect the internal wrong political, social and socio-economic systems. Communism seeks to end national borders and abolish the current national militaries. We currently have wrong systems like India, Pakistan and USA and we have imperialist militaries like from USA seeking to impose their own wrong systems on other societies 10,000 kms away through mass destruction. Is this right ?

Tell me, can one go into low Earth orbit and expect to see physical borders separating almost all countries ? The answer is a strong no. So if Nature doesn't assign humans national borders why have modern humans drawn those up ? Before 1947 during British India the British dominion's citizen could travel from the farthest corner in present Afghanistan ( which though wasn't quite part of the British empire ) to the farthest corner in present Burma / Myanmar without passport and visa so what happened after 1947 ?

One shouldn't strive to be loyal to one's country but loyal to humanity and to the correct morality that arises from being loyal to humanity. A country / nation is a temporary thing because with a regional collaborative revolution three countries can become one. And it is always the case that, like especially in India, the one who shouts I am a patriot the loudest and seeks to denigrate the pan-human Communists especially will be the one to be the ultimate oppressor in his or her temporary construct called The Country or The Nation. Below is my thread :

Who is the anti-national in India ?

The Hindutva right-wing groups ( BJP, RSS etc ) in India and their many supporters in the visual and print media, on Twitter and on various websites are fond of assigning the phrase "anti-national" and so demonizing certain groups who either revolt against the right-wingers or don't fit into the...

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You would have noticed that Communist movements in countries are generally named as "Communist Party of / Communist Movement of" and then the current country name. That is because Communists speak and struggle for a pan-human revolution, a world revolution that will result in the falling of national borders and the abolishment of national militaries. A world of peace, serenity under a single progressive, just, harmonious, scientific and Nature-aligning governance system. This is my thread from a few days ago about the story of the daughter of the female founder of the transnational revolutionary movement Japanese Red Army whose husband was a fighter with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, another Communist group under the PLO. See the transnational, pan-human collaboration here in multiple ways ? That is how it should be, as Nature defines. So by being loyal to general human values and by being empathetic to the sufferings of humans far away from your current national borders you will develop empathy for the sufferings of the humans in your own country, a true loyalty to your country. Two quotes from the great revolutionary Che Guevara :
"Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary."

"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine."

Hence Pragati Purush Modi ji and his 500 million brain dead "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" chanting followers will not in a light year develop the empathy and solutions for people in India that the progressives especially the Communists have since the establishment of the Communist Party of India in 1920.

@Joe Shearer @Goenitz @fitpOsitive @Mentee @Sainthood 101 @Atlas @Sharma Ji, your views please.