VHP demands help for Bangladesh Refugees

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PM should exert pressure on Bangladesh on minority issue: VHP

 

Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Monday asked Prime Minister Atal Bihari

Vajpayee should put pressure on the Bangladesh government to stop

repression against the minority community in that country besides

demanding a "separate homeland" for them within its boundaries.

 

Blaming Bangladesh Prime Minister Khalida Zia, senior VHP leader

Ashok Singhal told reporters that "Vajpayee and foreign minister

Jaswant Singh should exert pressure on the neighbouring government

and ensure that the atrocities against the minorities were put to an

end."

 

"If nothing goes well, then the Bangladesh government should be

threatened," Singhal said. The VHP leader said pressure should also

be exerted on it to provide a separate homeland within the boundaries

of Bangladesh, where the Hindu minorities could stay without any

fear.

 

He also demanded for raising the matter at the United Nations besides

ensuring that proper refugee camps were provided in the district

adjoining the Bangladesh border.

 

He blamed leftist governments in Tripura and West Bengal for not

doing any concrete measures for the refugees.

 

The VHP leader claimed that no village had been left in Bangladesh

where a murder or rape against the minority Hindu had not taken

place. Singhal said VHP was ready to extend all help to government in

setting up camps in areas adjoining the border in Tripura and West

Bengal.