HABIGANJ Dist. (Bangladesh) / KHOWAI, June 26 (TIWN): About 250 Hindu tribes, who took shelter in Indo-Bangla border on Saturday had been pushed back after BSF/ BGB meeting held on Saturday night. The Hindu Tribes have gone back to their main land with an “uncertain future”, as the situation is still out of control at Bangladesh. “They could not cross the zero point”, said SP Khowai Jayanta Chakraborty. Talking to Jayanta Chakraborty. he said, “Nobody was allowed to enter more than zero point, but food was provided to them sufficiently”. Asking about the situation there he said, “The situation is fully under control and nothing happened actually, as they couldn’t enter India also”. “After meeting BGB took them back to Bangladesh”, said Chakraborty. Reportedly, the Hindus who tried to enter here in Tripura were starving and suffering from communal clash since 2 days. The Gate number was 10, and the pillar number was 1965, where the Bangladeshi tribes remained on Saturday. They wanted to take shelter in India, as refugee, said sources.

The Bangladeshis who had been staying on forest department land in Chunarughat, under Habiganj, tried to enter the Indian state at Khowai on Saturday morning. BSF 130th Btl stopped them.  

The Hindus had been living in the Telenga Range (Bangladesh) of a reserved forest and after a problem they faced with the forest department workers there they took shelter in Indo-Bangla border. 

On June 10 the unidentified attackers hacked a 62-year-old Hindu monastery worker to death. In January this year, a local homeopath Samir Ali, who had converted into Christianity, was found murdered in Jhenaidah. Another Ananda Gopal Ganguly, the 70 year-old victim, was riding a bicycle to Naldanga Bazar to perform puja when he was attacked by three men who came on a motorcycle carrying sharp weapons, local police said. Apart from that there are more incidents related to attacks upon Hindu at Bangladesh and the Khowai Indo-Bangla border incident is another example of such an incident.

There are continuous attacks upon Minorities in Bangladesh. Although Bangladesh is officially secular, around 90% of Bangladesh’s 160 million people are Muslims, while 8% are Hindus. Report says, in 1971 Hindus population was almost one-third (30 percent) of the population according to official census, in 1972- 20%, and in 2014- it is just 10%.