Arrest of Chinmoy Krishna Das Red Flag to India’s Perseverance

Outcry in India Over Arrest of Chinmoy Krishna Das in Bangladesh

By Manish Anand

New Delhi, November 27: Arrest of Chinmoy Krishna Das in Bangladesh on charges of sedition has brought bipartisan consensus that Dhaka is now a puppet in hands of anti-India forces. Bangladesh police charged Das with sedition case on complaint of an activist of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).

Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi expressed dismay at the arrest of Das. The head of the ISCKON in Bangladesh had allegedly given calls for peaceful protests against attacks on minorities in the Islamic nation.

“Arrest of Das is an example of collapsing law and order situation in Bangladesh. It highlights the fact that Bangladesh is being run not by the state, but by radicals. To be precise – the DEEP STATE,” Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi posted on X.

The Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS) supremo Mohan Bhagwat in his Vijyadashmi speech had warned against the ‘Deep State’ turning Bangladesh into its laboratory. Union Minister for External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at a book launch of a former diplomat in September has said that India had not been taken aback by the violent overthrow of the Sheikh Hasina-led government in Dhaka.

Circumstantially, it appears that the alleged ‘Deep State’ spread tentacles in Bangladesh while New Delhi had been watching on the sidelines. After the overthrow of Hasina-led government, the Chief Advisor of the Interim Government of Bangladesh Muhammed Yunus introduced three participants of the violent agitation at the Clinton Centre with former US President Bill Clinton clapping.

Yunus cheerfully told Clinton Centre that the “agitation in Bangladesh had been meticulously planned”. Afterwards, Yunus gave ample hints to Al Jazeera during an interview that he has no plan to hold elections sooner as “necessary reforms could take as much as four years”.

The attacks on Hindus evidently are only rising. The media community from Bangladesh in New Delhi claims that Dhaka-based publications and broadcasters have been sternly warned against reporting cases of attacks on Hindus. India’s diplomatic counselling the new regime in Dhaka has fallen on deaf ears so far.

Das was detained under sedition charges on allegation that he led a rally against the persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh in Rangpur in the vicinity of Dhaka. Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan, who was a participant of the violent agitation against Hasina-led government and is now an adviser in the interim dispensation, told reporters that “no seditious activities will be tolerated”.

Jaishankar at another occasion argued that economic compulsions on the lines of Sri Lanka and Maldives will bring Bangladesh to good neighbourly relations with India. Diplomatic community is arguing in New Delhi that circumstances in Bangladesh show that Jaishankar needs to rethink his diplomacy only stance in relations with Bangladesh.

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Manish Anand

Manish Anand is a senior journalist with more than two decades of hardcore reporting on beats such as Prime Minister’s Office, Parliament, BJP, Congress, Planning Commission, NITI Aayog, and scores of Union Ministries.

His past has been with The New Indian Express, The Asian Age/Deccan Chronicle, and The Statesman.

For about 15 years, Manish was also a regular commentator and host for talks on AIR on foreign affairs.

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