Violence against Hindus: Hotels, hospitals in Assam, Tripura stopped serving visitors from Bangladesh

Guwahati: Hotels in the Barak Valley of southern Assam have declared that they will not host citizens of Bangladesh unless the violence against Hindus and other minorities in Bangladesh stops. Protesting the increasing violence against religious minorities especially the Hindus in the neighbouring countries, the Barak Valley Hotel and restaurants association has taken the decision.

The districts of Cachar, Hailakandi, and Sribhumi make up the Barak Valley, which shares 129 kilometers of border with Bangladesh’s Sylhet region. “The decision reflects the region’s concern for the safety of minorities and Hindus in Bangladesh,” said Babul Rai, head of the Barak Valley Hotel and Restaurant Association. “The horrors occurring are unacceptable to us. “This is our protest,” Rai stated, emphasizing the three districts’ hotel owners’ united front.

Earlier on December 3, Citing the disregard for the Indian flag and reported atrocities against the country’s minority Hindu population, the All Tripura Hotel & Restaurant Owners’ Association (ATHROA) announced that it has chosen to cease serving visitors from Bangladesh.

“We respect all religions and are a secular nation,” stated General Secretary Saikat Bandyopadhyay. A group of Islamists in Bangladesh have desecrated our national flag and are oppressing minorities. Such occurrences used to occur in the past as well, but they have now reached a breaking point.

A hospital in Tripura previously declared that it would no longer treat patients from Bangladesh. Following protests by a local group calling for the termination of services to Bangladeshi nationals, the private multispecialty hospital in Agartala, known as ILS Hospital, released this notification. “We fully support the demand to suspend treatment for Bangladeshi nationals at our health facility,” stated Gautam Hazarika, the hospital’s chief operating officer. With immediate effect our help desks at ILS Hospital and Akhaura Check Post will no longer be open which earlier facilitated patients from the neighbouring country.