Suvendu Adhikari leads protests outside Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata against attack on Hindus

Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and Congress leaders held protests outside the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata on Monday (December 22, 2025) against the attack on Hindus in the neighbouring country. 

These protests came in response to the Hindu community member Dipu Chandra Das’s lynching in Bangladesh amid the growing unrest in their nation after the death of their popular youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi, who was shot dead in public. 

Mr. Adhikari and other Bharatiya Janata Party supporters tried to march to the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in the Beck Bagan area. Their protest march was joined by many Hindu monks, which was stopped by the Kolkata Police due to safety concerns. The protesters scuffled with the police as they were barred from entering the commission. Effigies of Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser to Bangladesh interim government, were burnt on the road. 

When they were barred from moving ahead, Mr. Adhikari and other protesters conducted a sit-in demonstration on the road. 

They also announced that a protest would be conducted across the border areas in West Bengal on December 24 if there was no action against Das’s lynching in Bangladesh. Mr. Adhikari said they would head back to the Deputy High Commission on December 26 to protest. 

“We will not let this matter go. Dipu Das was burnt alive. We will not allow them to sit here [at the Bangladesh High Commission],” Mr. Adhikari said, while heading back from the protest. 

The protesters carried posters of “We want revenge for Dipu Das’s murder”. 

Congress workers also held a similar protest outside the Deputy High Commission a few hours before the BJP. They were also stopped by the Kolkata Police before they could enter the commission office to file their deputation. 

“We have come to share this message and urge the Bangladesh Deputy Commissioner so that every community in Bangladesh can live together peacefully,” one of the Congress leaders said. They raised slogans of “Vande Mataram” and asked for an end to violence against minority Hindus in Bangladesh in the name of politics and religion.