A gaggle of native BJP employees in Kolkata’s Mukundapur space launched a protest platform known as ‘Salute Tiranga’ on Saturday, demanding {that a} personal hospital within the space refuse therapy to non-Hindu sufferers from Bangladesh.
The transfer comes amid a pressure in ties between the 2 nations over the alleged atrocities on the minority Hindu inhabitants.
The personal hospital is certainly one of Kolkata’s outstanding medical services that receives a big variety of sufferers from neighbouring nations.
Regardless of a number of makes an attempt to contact them, the hospital authorities have been unavailable for remark.
The protesters submitted a deputation to the hospital stating — “Nation comes first… our brothers and sisters are being tortured and killed over there. Thus, no medical therapy ought to be offered to non-Hindu Bangladeshi’s.”
The deputation additionally mentions, “It’s time that we hold our ethics and enterprise apart for the respect of our Nation, Tricolour the Tiranga.”
Narayan Chatterjee, a member of ‘Salute Tiranga”‘ advised The Indian Specific, “We’re pained at what is occurring to
our minority hindu brothers and sisters in Bangladesh. They’re being tortured and killed. This ought to be stopped. Nation all the time comes first.”
The protesters additional mentioned that already they’ve given an analogous deputation to a different personal hospital and in future plan to carry protests exterior different personal hospitals who present medical providers to non-Hindu Bangladeshi’s.
Earlier this month, a 141-bed hospital in Kolkata took a stance by asserting it will not admit Bangladeshi sufferers. The choice was made in protest of the alleged disrespect proven to the Indian nationwide flag in Bangladesh.
One other Kolkata hospital had additionally introduced that it’ll not deal with sufferers from the neighbouring nation as “the nationwide flag of India has been desecrated in varied locations” within the neighbouring nation.
Moreover, this 12 months for the primary time stalls from Bangladesh have been lacking from two of Kolkata’s main gala’s — the Kolkata Worldwide E-book Honest and the Bidhannagar Mela Utsav, which is organised by the Bidhannagar Municipal Company (BMC). This 12 months, Bangladesh didn’t have any illustration on the thirtieth Worldwide Movie Pageant in Kolkata as effectively on account of visa issues. A two-day Bengali literary competition at Visva-Bharati College’s Bangladesh Bhavan additionally noticed no participation from Bangladesh. This was after a number of poets and writers from Bangladesh have been reportedly denied visas amid rising political tensions between India and the neighbouring nation.
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