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Various Hindutva groups in India are now frustrated by the way off-roader Shakib Al Hasan has publicly apologized on social media for attending a Kali Puja in Kolkata. Leaders of the Hindu World Council said they hoped Shakib would bring more dignity to individual freedom and rights.
However, several leaders associated with the BJP and RSS ideology in West Bengal have said that they understand that the reality in Bangladesh today is that Shakib had to apologize out of fear for his life.
Taslima Nasreen, a Bangladeshi writer in exile in India, commented that Shakib had insulted Hinduism by apologizing. In fact, cricketer Shakib Al Hasan’s participation in a Kali Puja in Calcutta and the wave of controversy surrounding him is now spreading beyond Bangladesh to India.
He should not have gone to Kalipujo as a “true Muslim”. Shakib Al Hasan’s statement on social media is not well received by Hindutva groups in India at all. Top leader of the Hindu World Council. As Surendra Jain has said, they expected more intrepid demeanor from star cricketers like Shakib.
Dr. Jain says, how can going to Kalipuja be a great crime? Do not Hindus and Christians join the Iftar party of Muslims? Many Hindus also join in the prayers. It is regrettable that a star in Bangladesh is threatened with death for going to Kalipuja, or that Hindus are targeted under the pretext of a Facebook post.
“A happy cricketer like Shakib Al Hasan will condemn this Islamic fundamentalism, that is our expectation,” he said. I wanted this message from him that the coexistence of different religions is possible only when there is mutual respect.
Tathagata Roy, former president of the BJP in West Bengal and former governor of Tripura and Meghalaya, said that in the debate on Shakib Al Hasan it was a source of great regret that India had not organized enough protests against fundamentalism in Bangladesh. The saddest thing is that there is not much protest in India against the ban on the inauguration of Kali Puja for fear of being beheaded.
He said that the so-called secularists who are being swept away by the flood of secularism in India have never said that the man who made this threat in Bangladesh has committed a great injustice. If Shakib wants to inaugurate Kali Puja, then he should be allowed to do so, they should say so!
Many also think that the organizers should have made it clear that Shakib came to the bid in Calcutta not as a Muslim but as a popular cricketer over religion.
BBC report in Bangladesh
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