Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and Congress leaders held protests outside the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata on Monday (December 22, 2025) against the attack on Hindus in the neighbouring country.
These protests came in response to the Hindu community member Dipu Chandra Das’s lynching in Bangladesh amid the growing unrest in their nation after the death of their popular youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi, who was shot dead in public.
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Mr. Adhikari and other Bharatiya Janata Party supporters tried to march to the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in the Beck Bagan area. Their protest march was joined by many Hindu monks, which was stopped by the Kolkata Police due to safety concerns. The protesters scuffled with the police as they were barred from entering the commission. Effigies of Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser to Bangladesh interim government, were burnt on the road.
When they were barred from moving ahead, Mr. Adhikari and other protesters conducted a sit-in demonstration on the road.
