Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad on Friday expressed their anxiety saying India’s Citizenship Amendment law will encourage minority people to leave Bangladesh.
“The India’s law will encourage our minority people to go India. The government of Bangladesh should take measures to stop such attempts implementing minority-friendly promises made by the AL during last Parliamentary polls,” Rana Dasgupta, General Secretary of the Oikya Parishad, said at a press briefing in the organisation’s office at Purana Paltan in the capital.
Rana said, the numbers of minority people have been increased for the last several years according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistic. He urged the government to play active role in this regard.
Indian President Ram Nath Kovind last night given his assent to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, turning it into a law amid violent street protests.
It seeks to grant Indian nationality to Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jains, Parsis and Sikhs, but not Muslims, who fled Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan before 2015.
Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad on Friday expressed their anxiety saying India’s Citizenship Amendment law will encourage minority people to leave Bangladesh.
“The India’s law will encourage our minority people to go India. The government of Bangladesh should take measures to stop such attempts implementing minority-friendly promises made by the AL during last Parliamentary polls,” Rana Dasgupta, General Secretary of the Oikya Parishad, said at a press briefing in the organisation’s office at Purana Paltan in the capital.
Rana said, the numbers of minority people have been increased for the last several years according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistic. He urged the government to play active role in this regard.
Indian President Ram Nath Kovind last night given his assent to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, turning it into a law amid violent street protests.
It seeks to grant Indian nationality to Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jains, Parsis and Sikhs, but not Muslims, who fled Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan before 2015.
