On Friday, January 24, 2025, exactly a week before the Hindu festival, some unidentified Muslim Extremists desecrated the newly crafted and artistically built multiple deities of Hindu Goddess Saraswati in Karatia, a suburb of Tangail main city in Tangail district.
It can be noted that Hindus in Bangladesh and around the world are set to worship and celebrate their annual festival of “Saraswati Puja” on Sunday, February 2, 2025. Goddess Saraswati emblems knowledge, music, and arts in Hindu religion, and is widely worshipped by Hindus across Bangladesh using some very artistically built deity of the Goddess. Hindu artist craftsmen build new deities for the devotees every year with a lot of love and care.
It can be noted that these desecrated deities were being built by the local roadside which is public space. The local artists have been using these locations for years as part of their tradition without any such hateful incident in the past. In Dr. Muhammad Yunus led Bangladesh, Muslim Extremists have been violently attacking Hindus across Bangladesh.
Victims: Hindu religious minorities
Place of attack: Karatia, a suburb of Tangail main city, Karatia Union, Tangail district, Bangladesh
Date of attack: Friday, January 24, 2025
News media: None (Bangladesh media grossly avoiding to publish attacks on Hindus in Dr. Muhammad Yunus led Bangladesh)
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