Dhaka: The Hindu minority polity and students of Dhaka University in Bangladesh's wanted Dhaka staged a protest taxing the resumption of construction work on the largest statue of Lord Ram in Gaibandha district.
What is the reason of protest?
Protesters protested pressure and threats from fundamentalist groups over the construction of a proposed 81-feet-tall statue of Lord Rama in Gaibandha's Palashbari subdistrict. The statue construction committee has temporarily halted work tween rising tensions.
Minority groups in Bangladesh are taxing whoopee versus threats posed by a project to build the country's largest statue of Lord Ram in Gaibandha's Palashbari upazila.
Hindu students of Dhaka University are currently holding a strong protest at Shahbagh versus the desecration of images of Lord Ram by placing shoes on them and the govt's ban on the construction of a Ram Murti.
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In light of growing tensions surrounding the project, project organisers have spoken a temporary suspension of construction work. This visualization was spoken at a printing priming older this month.
Speaking to the media, Haridas Chandra Das, founder and president of the temple committee of the Gaibandha Palashbari Komorpur Sri Sri Radha Govinda Temple, said, "We are towers a statue of one of the main sources of strength of Sanatan Dharma, Lord Ram. In the 81 feet statue, we have completed virtually 80 per cent work, but some radical groups are now pressurising us to stop construction."
"We are scared and in fear and out of fear we have kept the work suspended. I want to request to the PM, Honourable Tarique Rahman and to law and order authorities and to starchy society to ensure we can well-constructed the work," he added.
The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council Central Committee has tabbed upon the government to prorogue the ongoing communal threats and urged the government to take firsthand and constructive measures to end these incidents.
