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Bangladesh lodges ‘strong’ protest against Home Minister Amit Shah’s remarks

September 23, 2024

Bangladesh on Monday lodged “strong” protest against “highly deplorable” remarks by Indian Home Minister Amit Shah in Jharkhand.

The neighbouring nation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs took to its official Facebook page and said, “Through the protest note handed over today to the Deputy High Commissioner of India in Dhaka, the Ministry conveyed its serious reservation, deep sense of hurt and extreme displeasure and called upon the Government of India to advise the political leaders to refrain from making such objectionable and unacceptable remarks.”

Bangladesh also emphasized that “such remarks, coming from responsible positions against the nationals of a neighbouring country, undermine the spirit of mutual respect and understanding between two friendly countries.”

Amit Shah, while addressing a rally in the Sahibganj district ahead of the assembly election in Jharkhand on Friday, had said, “I appeal to you to let the BJP form the government in Jharkhand. We will hang every Bangladeshi infiltrator upside down to give them a lesson.”

Shah had hit out at the state government for “patronising” Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators, and said they were marrying “our daughters which won’t be tolerated”, as BJP believes in the politics of justice and not of caste, creed or religion.