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Yogi Adityanath Warns Against Division Amid Bangladesh Unrest: ‘Batenge to Katenge’

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Monday called for the unity of the nation by taking directives from the ongoing violence in Bangladesh. “There is nothing more important than the nation.

Our strength lies in our unity. ‘Batenge to Katenge’—what happened in Bangladesh was a lesson. We must never allow those mistakes to happen here. ‘Batenge to Katenge, Ek Rahenge to Nek Rahenge,’” he said during an address at a public event in Agra.

This came a day after Adityanath had lashed out at the opposition for maintaining a silence on the attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh. “The opposition keeps tracking every event across the world, but when it comes to attacks on Hindus and demolition of temples in Bangladesh, they suddenly go in silence mode,”.

“They home in on Palestine, but look away from Bangladesh, for fear of upsetting their vote bank.”

The comments by the UP Chief Minister, unless considered off the record, come at a time when Bangladesh is said to head towards massive turmoil, having slipped into political chaos since August 5 after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave in to pressure and resigned.

Reports show that varied forms of attacks have taken place against 8% of the population in Bangladesh, which is Hindu. The temples enacting as Hindu properties in the community members’ names have been desecrated while the properties have been attacked by the mobs.

Even though and supported Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League – the party that led the country’s liberation movement in 1971 – historically, the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, a minority rights organization, said that some 200 such attacks had taken place since her departure on August 16.

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Prime Minister of X Narendra Modi too expressed his concern in a post on X (former Twitter), congratulating the chief advisor of the interim government of Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, hoping that an end to this crisis will take place the soonest by ensuring and ensuring the earliest safety and protection of Hindus and the minorities in the land.