Ahead of Modi’s Dhaka trip, protests held against CAA

As per New Age Bangladesh, protests were organised by Samamana Islami Dalgulo and Islami Andolan Bangladesh. They staged demonstrations at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque premises and adjacent areas.

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Modi is scheduled to visit Bangladesh on March 17 to join the celebrations marking the country’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary. (File Photo)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposed visit to Bangladesh has come under a cloud over massive protests against Citizenship Amendment Act that were held in Dhaka on Friday. One of the protesting outfits gave a call to form a nationwide human chain on March 12 and urged protesters to take to the streets carrying black flag, shoes, brooms and wearing shrouds.

As per New Age Bangladesh, protests were organised by Samamana Islami Dalgulo and Islami Andolan Bangladesh. They staged demonstrations at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque premises and adjacent areas.

Modi is scheduled to visit Bangladesh on March 17 to join the celebrations marking the country’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary.

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“The Islami Andolan Bangladesh declared to arrange prayer sessions in mosques on March 13 seeking divine blessings for oppressed Muslims in India and to hold demonstrations in the country,” the New Age, a media outlet said.

Addressing the rally as the chair, Jamiat Ulama e Islam Bangladesh leader and Hefazate Islam’s Dhaka city amir Nur Hossain Kasemi announced to form a countrywide human chain on March 12.

He criticised the government, saying it had come to power by snatching people’s votes and was not understanding people’s sentiments. He said that they would resist Modi’s Bangladesh visit at any cost.

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Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More

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