Bangladesh’s Islami Andolan party holds protest rally over Prophet remarks row
India Today
Several thousand supporters of one of the largest Islamist political parties in Bangladesh held a protest rally over the Prophet remarks row.
One of the largest Islamist political parties in Bangladesh, Islami Andolon Bangladesh, on Thursday organised a protest rally in the capital city of Dhaka against the remarks made by suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma on the Prophet Muhammad.
The protestors demanded that a resolution be passed in the Parliament condemning the remarks made by the former BJP spokespersons and that the Indian ambassador be summoned along with the demand to arrest the former BJP spokespersons Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal.
Several other like-minded parties also took part in the protest under their own banners.
Several thousand protestors staged a demonstration in front of the downtown Baitul Mokarram Mosque and then headed towards the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, several kilometres away from the spot, defying rains. However, the riot police blocked the protesters in the Shantinagar area.
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Police, however, allowed a delegation of five representatives of the outfit to present a memorandum to the deputy police commissioner's office at Dhaka’s diplomatic enclave in Baridhara area, where the Indian High Commission is located.
"We received the memorandum and handed it over to the Indian High Commission," Deputy Police Commissioner Mohammad Asaduzzaman told reporters.
