Protest held outside UK parliament demanding Labour take action on Hindu persecution in Bangladesh

TOI analogous from London: Hundreds of PIOs and Bangladeshi-origin Hindus held a protestation successful the acold pouring rainfall extracurricular the Houses of Parliament successful London connected Wednesday calling for UK PM Keir Starmer to bash much to condemn the genocide of Hindus taking spot successful Bangladesh.Labour Basingstoke MP Luke Murphy was among those present. He said helium had been contacted by galore constituents disquieted astir the persecution and killings of Hindus successful Bangladesh. He said helium had raised it with the overseas bureau and successful Parliament. “The Labour govt has been engaged with this contented and volition proceed to property for a solution to guarantee we support minorities successful Bangladesh and elsewhere,” helium said.Former Labour MP Virendra Sharma said: “I americium urging the British govt and each those forces who ever enactment for quality rights to support the interests of the minorities successful Bangladesh, to intervene arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable truthful that the killings should beryllium stopped and not beryllium repeated, truthful they tin bask state of code and state of worship.”

He said the British govt should convey its choler and protestation to the Bangladesh precocious committee successful London that this volition not beryllium tolerated.

“The strongest protestation should beryllium from the govt of Britain. The British govt has not done enough. More tin beryllium done,” helium said.“In 1947, 30% to 40% of the colonisation of Bangladesh were Hindu and present it is 7%. There is nary instrumentality and order, nary state of code and nary quality rights successful Bangladesh since the interim govt came to power,” said Alak Chanda, wide caput of the Bangladesh Hindu Association (UK), which organised the protest. “We are urging Britain to instrumentality action. Why is Britain not pressuring this govt?”A integer van went circular flashing images of astir the Hindu genocide.

Signs protesters carried called for the Nobel bid prize fixed to Muhammad Yunus to beryllium revoked, for the unconditional merchandise of monk Chinmoy Prabhu, for temples to beryllium protected, and justness for Dipu Chandra Das who was lynched.Anamika Dev’s begetter was murdered by Muslims successful Bangladesh successful 2004. “There is nary justness for Hindus," she said. “My household were each threatened. It is simply a genocide. We privation justness and we privation Britain to enactment unit connected Bangladesh to prevention Hindus.”