India backs ISKCON, asks Bangladesh to protect minorities

“Our presumption connected the substance is wide – the interim authorities indispensable unrecorded up to its work of protecting each minorities. We are acrophobic astatine the surge of extremist rhetoric, expanding incidents of unit and provocation. These developments cannot beryllium dismissed lone arsenic media exaggeration. ISKCON is simply a globally well-regarded organisation with a beardown grounds of societal service. We erstwhile again telephone upon Bangladesh to instrumentality each steps for the extortion of minorities,” helium said.

On the caller apprehension of Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, a erstwhile subordinate of ISKCON Bangladesh, Jaiswal said India expected him to person a just and transparent trial.

“While we cognize that the lawsuit moves on, ineligible processes are underway, it is our anticipation that helium [Das] volition get a just and transparent proceedings and that his ineligible rights volition beryllium respected,” helium said.

The MEA had connected Tuesday issued a connection expressing interest implicit the apprehension and denial of bail to Das, who is the spokesperson of the Bangladesh Sammilit Sanatan Jagran Jote.

Since his arrest, ISKCON Bangladesh has clarified that Das does not officially correspond the organisation, but it supports his rights. On Thursday, the Bangladesh Supreme Court rejected a plea to prohibition ISKCON.