The Iskcon Radhakanta Temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has been vandalised, and many people have been injured

*Paromita Das

A mob allegedly vandalised an Iskcon Radhakanta temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Thursday. Many temple members were reportedly injured in the attack on Lal Mohan Saha Street in Dhaka’s Wari neighborhood.

Meanwhile, Radharaman Das, the vice-president of Iskcon Kolkata, reacted to the incident and condemned the attack, which occurred on the eve of Dol Yatra and Holi celebrations.

Das claimed that a mob of 200 people attacked people on the premises of the Iskcon Radhakanta Temple in Dhaka.

‘Last evening, as devotees were preparing for the Gaura Purnima celebration, a mob of 200 people stormed the premises of Shri Radhakanta Temple in Dhaka and attacked them, injuring three people in the scuffle.’

Fortunately, they called the police and were able to drive the miscreants away,’ Radharaman Das was quoted as saying by the news agency ANI.

Das urged the Bangladesh government to take tough measures against the attackers and to “provide security to the country’s Hindu minorities.”

‘These attacks are extremely concerning. ‘We request that the Bangladesh government take strict action and provide security to the country’s Hindu minorities,’ Das said.

This incident comes just a few months after a series of attacks on minority religious sites in Bangladesh last October. On October 16, an ISKCON temple in Noakhali, Bangladesh, was vandalised, and a devotee was killed by a mob.

Previously, communal tensions gripped Bangladesh following allegations of Quran disobeying at a puja pavilion in Cumilla on October 13, last year, sparking violence in several districts across the country.