The ruling BJP on Saturday staged protest rallies across Tripura including different bordering areas protesting the attack and vandalisation of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s ancestral house in Bangladesh.

Thousands of party leaders, workers and supporters, holding party flags and banners, condemning the vendalisation of Tagore’s ancestral house, participated in protest rallies in all the ten organisational districts of the state and raised slogans against the interim government of Bangladesh for failing to protect the historic structure.

BJP state vice president Subal Bhowmik and general secretary Bhagaban Das led the protest rally near Agartala Integrated Land Customs Station condemning the attack on Tagore’s ancestral house in Sirajganj district of Bangladesh.

“We took out rallies in all the organizational districts of the party, condemning the attack by fundamentalist groups. Under Muhammad Yunus, a chaotic situation has been created in Bangladesh and minorities are facing hardships,” said Bhagaban Das.

‘The attack on Tagore’s ancestral house is an attack on Bengali heritage and our identity. If such attacks continue, we will launch massive protests in future,’ he said.

While, in another protest near Srimantapur checkpost in Sonamura near Indo-Bangla border by Sepahijal district BJP, former union minister of state, Smt Pratima Bhowmik said “Dr. Yunus, the head of Bangladesh’s interim government, has stolen the Nobel Prize—so it’s no surprise that he fails to understand its significance. He is a usurer, a representative of a bourgeois government.”

‘That is why, during his tenure, such a barbaric and heinous attack was carried out on the ancestral home of the world-renowned poet, the pride of all Asia—Rabindranath Tagore,’ said Smt Bhowmik.

Speaking with media persons during the large  protest rally condemnation of the barbaric incident in Bangladesh, Smt Bhowmik also said that people of India will continue their protest against barbarism in Bangladesh

It may be noted that on the 11th, Jamaat-e-Islami followers attacked the ancestral residence of Rabindranath Tagore at the Kachari Bari in Sirajganj, located about 150 km from Dhaka. Even though four days have passed since this heinous attack, Dr. Yunus interim-government has taken no action.

In protest, BJP is organizing a series of demonstrations across the state. Today’s protest program began near Srimantapur Panchayat and was halted by police barricades about 50 meters from the border. Besides the former Union Minister, the rally was attended by MLA Bindu Debnath, BJP Sepahijala South District President Uttam Das, and Mandal members from four different mandals.”

Similar, protests were also organized near all border check posts including in Ragna border in North Tripura district on Saturday.

While, Tipra Motha supremo Pradyot Kishore Debbarma said, “How do we expect that a nation, which could not show respect to its father of the nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, will tolerate Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore?” “The library of Maharaja Bir Bikram Manikya at Comilla was vandalized senselessly by fundamentalist groups. We strongly condemned the attack on Tagore’s house. They forget that Bangladesh’s national anthem is Tagore’s creation. They should show him some respect,” he said.