India has sent a strong message to the administration of Muhammad Yunus regarding the unchecked violence against minorities in Bangladesh. In the last month alone, at least five Hindus have been killed, and numerous temples have been vandalized. India has issued a stern directive to Bangladesh to curb the rising fundamentalism. The Yunus government has been instructed to take swift and decisive action.
On Friday, the spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs, Randhir Jaiswal, delivered a strong message to Bangladesh regarding the increasing violence against minorities. He said, “We have repeatedly observed the alarming trend of extremist attacks on minorities in Bangladesh. Their homes and businesses are being attacked. Such incidents of communal violence must be dealt with swiftly and decisively. The tendency to dismiss these incidents as personal or political disputes emboldens the perpetrators and increases fear and insecurity among minorities.”
Rising attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh
Notably, there have been several incidents of minority Hindus being killed in Bangladesh over the past month. On December 18, fundamentalists brutally murdered a young Hindu man named Dipu Das. After being beaten by a mob, Dipu was hanged from a tree and burned to death. Dipu Chandra Das, 25, was lynched by a mob on December 18 after being falsely accused of blasphemy. His body was also hung from a tree and set on fire. Initially, the Bangladesh police took no action in this incident. Later, under international pressure, 12 people were arrested.
On December 24, a Hindu youth named Amrit Mondal was allegedly lynched by a mob in Kalimohar Union in Bangladesh. The Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in Bangladesh condemned the killing but claimed that Mondal was an extortionist and there was no communal angle to his murder.
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On December 31, a 40-year-old Hindu woman has allegedly been gang-raped by two men, who also tied her to a tree and cut off her hair in central Bangladesh’s Kaliganj, a sub-district of Jhenaidah. The woman was raped the same day a Hindu man, Khokon Chandra Das, died after being attacked and set ablaze by a mob in the Shariatpur district of Bangladesh. Das had managed to escape after jumping into a pond and succumbed to his injuries on Saturday. Following these consecutive incidents in Bangladesh, the Ministry of External Affairs has now issued a strong message.
According to the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, the reported cases of communal violence stood at 51, including 10 murders, in December 2025. India had highlighted in a statement last month that there have been more than 2,900 incidents of violence against minorities, including cases of killings, arson, and land grabs, which have been documented by sources during the tenure of the interim government. “These incidents cannot be brushed aside as mere media exaggerations or dismissed as political violence,” Jaiswal had said.
Attack on Hindus following murder of Sharif Osman Hadi in Bangladesh
Attack on Hindus in Bangladesh began after the murder of Sharif Osman Hadi. On the night of December 18, Osman Hadi, the spokesperson of the Inqilab platform, was shot dead. Bangladesh became turbulent afterward, and persecution of Hindus resumed. In retaliation for Hadi’s murder, two Hindu youths, Dipu Das and Amrito Mandal, were killed back to back. However, the chief advisor of the interim government, Muhammad Yunus, declared Hadi a ‘martyr’ and assured his family of support. Yet, Yunus or any of his colleagues did not utter a word about Dipu’s murder.
Sharif Osman Hadi was a prominent Bangladeshi political activist and a central figure in the 2024 July Uprising that led to the ousting of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. He was the founder and spokesperson of ‘Inqilab Mancha’, a radical student-led socio-cultural and political platform.
On December 12, 2025, Hadi was shot in the head by masked assailants while launching his election campaign in the Bijoynagar area of central Dhaka. After initially receiving treatment in Dhaka, he was airlifted to Singapore General Hospital for advanced care. He succumbed to his injuries on December 18, 2025, at the age of 32.
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