KOLKATA: BJP activists staged a protest in front of Kolkata hospital to stop treating non-Hindu patients from Bangladesh. A protest rally led by BJP leader Locket Chatterjee, which saw participation from monks, was held in front of a private hospital in Mukundpur, Kolkata on Saturday.
BJP workers organized the rally under the banner 'Bengali Hindu Suraksha Samiti'. The rally was to protest against the brutal atrocities faced by minorities in Bangladesh.
‘Our brothers and sisters are being tortured and killed in Bangladesh. In protest against the continuing brutality against minorities and the grotesque incident of desecrating Indian tricolour, we demand that non-Hindus Bangladeshis should not be allowed treatment in Indian hospitals. We must set aside our morals and business for the honour of the country and the tricolour”, BJP members also handed over the memorandum to the hospital authorities.
The members of ‘Salute Tiranga’ brigade said that the protest would spread across the country, in front of every private hospital. Recently, a hospital in Kolkata announced that it would not admit patients from Bangladesh. The protest was against the desecration of the Indian flag in Bangladesh. Another hospital in Kolkata had taken a similar stand.
Apart from this, stalls from Bangladesh were not set up this time at the Kolkata International Book Fair and Bidhannagar Mela Utsav. Bangladesh was also not represented at the 30th Kolkata International Film Festival.