“Islamic Bangladesh: Hindu Harijans are evicted without rehabilitation in Dhaka”, Hindu Existence, June 13, 2024:
“In a time when Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has declared that no one in Bangladesh will be homeless, the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) is evicting residents from a part of the Miranjilla Sweeper Colony on Agha Sadeq Road, Banshal, Old Dhaka, without providing them with any alternative housing. These residents are known as Harijans of Hindu faith.
This Hindu Harijan community, brought from the Telugu region of India during British rule, has been living in this colony for several centuries. They were brought here to serve the sanitation of the city’s population. They did not voluntarily settle in Dhaka.
The DSCC has failed to fulfil any of the promises it made to the city’s residents. The City Corporation is partly responsible for the traffic congestion but has done nothing to solve it. Even an hour of rain floods a large part of the southern area, but the DSCC has not recovered the occupied canals to address this. It also failed to protect citizens from mosquitoes and dengue fever……”
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