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Dhaka: Over 200 People Vandalize, Loot ISKCON Radhakanta Temple

Dhaka: More than 200 people have been attacked, vandalized, and looted at the ISKON Radhakanta temple at 222 Lal Mohan Saha Street in Wari, Dhaka. 

According to reports, in the attacks, many people including Sumantra Chandra Shravan, Nihar Haldar, Rajiv Bhadra, were injured. The mob was led by Haji Shafiullah.

Last year, after the news of Quran being allegedly desecrated at a Durga Puja pandal near Nanuar Dighi lake in Comilla town, Bangladesh, was spread on social media, violence erupted and led to killing of three.

Similar incidents were also reported from Tipu Sultan Road in Dhaka and Kotwali in Chittagong.

The vice-president of ISCKON India Radharaman Das taking to twitter, condemned the incident. “It’s a very unfortunate incident that took place on the eve of Dol Yatra & Holi celebrations. Just a few days ago, the United Nations had passed a resolution declaring March 15 as the International Day to Combat Islamophobia,” he said.

He added, “We are surprised that the same United Nations is mute on the suffering of thousands of helpless Bangladeshi & Pakistani minorities. So many of the Hindu minorities have lost their lives, properties, have been raped, but alas, all the United Nations can do is to ponder upon Islamophobia.”

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Sonia Gandhi Likely To Meet Ghulam Nabi Azad Amid Pressure Built Up By G-23

Ashmita Chhabria

New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi is likely to meet Ghulam Nabi Azad today. This meeting comes a day after the Congress’s G-23 dissidents had a meeting for discussing the way ahead of Congress.

The dissidents have been having a meetings since Wednesday, upset with the stance of the loyalists at the Congress Working Committee. The loyalist insist on reasserting the Gandhis leadership, despite serial losses.

The offer of Sonia Gandhi that all Gandhis should step down was turned down by all the Congress leaders at the last Congress Working Committee Meet.

The G-23 has been persistently seeking for restructure of the organization. It had first wrote about this to Sonia Gandhi in 2020. The group had, in a statement on Wednesday, said the “only way forward for the Congress was to adopt a model of inclusive and collective leadership and decision making at all levels.” They insisted they want to strengthen the Congress and “not undermine it in any way.”

Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday. In the meet Bhupinder explained the current situation at Haryana to Rahul Gandhi and had a discussion about how the party should be strengthened in the state, sources said.

A group of 18 Congress leaders — a mix of G-23 dissidents and some ‘newcomers’ — spoke in favour of a “collective, inclusive leadership” after a meeting at the house of senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad.

From the group Bhupinder is the first leader to visit Rahul Gandhi.

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