The attack on Bangladesh’s Assistant High Commission in Agartala, India, has been fiercely denounced by Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who is now in London.
“The attack on Bangladesh’s assistant high commission in Agartala by members of an organization called ‘Hindu Sangharsh Samity’ is believed to have been pre-planned,” he said in a statement issued today.
BNP Assistant Office Secretary Taiful Islam Tipu sent the statement to the media.
According to the senior BNP leader, it is blatantly against the Geneva Convention to desecrate the Bangladeshi national flag, burn it, and then enter the assistant high commission’s office and vandalise it.
According to Fakhrul, inciting animosity in Bangladesh as a means of advancing Indian internal politics will strain ties between the two neighbours for a long time.
He asked the Indian people and government to investigate the situation.
“We hope that the Indians will respect the democratic aspirations of the citizens of the new Bangladesh and help in the trial of the leaders of the previous fascist Awami League regime, who are in India, by returning them,” he said.
