Foreign Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Saturday said India needs to address Bangladesh`s longstanding concerns to improve bilateral ties

Animosity towards Hindus in Bangladesh seems to have been going on for some time. In 2021, mob attacks during and after the Hindu festival of Durga Puja prompted human rights group Amnesty International to say that the Bangladesh state has, over the years, "failed in its duty to protect minorities".

India raised deep concerns about the increasing threats and targeted violence against Hindus and other minority communities in Bangladesh. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal urged Bangladesh to protect all minorities and criticized the surge of extremist rhetoric and violent incidents as serious issues needing immediate attention.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has called upon Bangladeshi authorities to take decisive steps in curbing violence against minorities and ensuring justice for the victims and immediate release of those unjustly imprisoned,

"We strongly protest such arrests and appeal to the Bangladesh government to give protection to minorities,” claimed Radharamn Das, the vice-president and spokesperson of ISKCON.

Bangladesh Police earlier on Monday arrested International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) monk Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport area in Dhaka while he was traveling to Chittagong.