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Bangla elders decry anti-Hindu remarks - The Observer
India Abroad News Service
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5 April 1997
Title : Bangla elders decry anti-Hindu remarks
Author : India Abroad News Service
Publication : The Observer
Date : April 5, 1997
Bangladeshi intellectuals and prominent citizens have come out
against "communalist remarks" made by fundamentalist elements on
flaming torches carried across the nation to commemorate the 25th
anniversary of the country's independence.
Fundamentalist parties had dubbed the torches, Shikha Chiranttan
and Shikha anirban, as "un-Islamic" on the ground it represented
"fire worship."
Fundamentalist leader Abdul Matin said that the flames were
representations of Indian Hindu culture. Taking a swipe at India,
he alleged, "These things are being done with instigation from
outside the country to destroy Islamic culture."
The intellectuals and social leaders asked people to join hands
with them to resist the new "communalist conspiracy" of
fundamentalist groups.
Shikha Chiranttan was lit by Sheikh Hasina Wajed on March 7 at the
spot where the nation's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman gave the call
for freedom.
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