Unity is strength, division leads to destruction. Unity leads to the zenith, disunity paves the way to nowhere. This theory is applicable to an individual, a family and in a bigger sense, a nation as well. And, the same applies to the religious minorities in Bangladesh, too. Due to lack of optimum unity and solidarity even the existence of this section of people is now at stake and on the verge of virtual extinction. If one sits to ponder over the causes behind it scores of questions are sure to come forward as to what makes such a mess to a considerable and formidable population of over fifty million. If we all along try to go on turning a deaf ear and blind eye to the reality it would be an utter naïve and fatal in the long run. In fact, unity and solidarity always take half way to victory and triumph.

The main adversaries of Bangladeshi religious minorities are unimaginably powerful on many counts – education, intelligence, money, muscle – and above all, conspiracy is their sole weapon. So, they have succeeded in hounding and rendering the helpless victims penniless and disrobing and deflowering them and driving them out of their ancestral land. As a matter of fact, in this course, about seventy per cent religious minorities have had to cross over to India. And this very process is on and on. Still, solidarity is a far cry for this lot of natives on this planet. The long and dark hands of culprits have just added to the woes. Besides, the Delhi-Kolkata-Dhaka unholy alliance is also there. This black and clandestine entente becomes crystal clear when the Indian constitutional explanation labels the ousted Bangladeshi religious minorities staying in India as ‘illegal immigrants’ and denies them their due shelter, whereas, this very south Asian giant and protagonist of world peace and humanity does never fail to reveal its humanitarian face for oppressed people across the globe. The refugees from Tibet, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and even Bangladeshi Chakmas are lucky enough to be accorded refugee status in India. But, the treatments doled out to the Bengali-speaking religious minorities from Bangladesh in India are all the more inhuman, humiliating and fatal in true sense. It would have been better if the contributions made by the Bengali-speaking Bangladeshi religious minorities during and after the freedom struggle of India were taken into account for the benefit of all quarters. The overall scenario of the entire Indian sub-continent would have been different in that event. But, what happened?

The activities of a large section of hypocrite minority leaders in Bangladesh are also adding salt to the wounds since they are busy in building their own fortune by dancing to the tune of that country’s Islamic masters. Their boot-licking policies of the so-called progressive Muslims of Dhaka and quasi-Hindus in India have resulted in fattening their fortune in the form of landed and real estate properties and mounds of bank balance in India. These opportunist leaders would lose not a single moment as and when they smell the imminent danger to cross over the boundary to the save haven in India and start screaming and shedding crocodile tears in pseudo love for their compatriots. During the last six decades, due to the persistent persecutions, tortures and humiliations, over thirty million religious minorities have been compelled to abandon the land of their forefathers after being rendered penniless and homeless, numerous minority women have been raped by Muslims in the eastern neighbour of India and what not? The Ekattarer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee (Committee for Elimination of Murderers and conspirators of Seventy-one) has commendably raised the demand for trial of the culprits responsible for killing three million innocent people, raping three hundred thousand women, large-scale looting and setting on fire scores of houses during the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971. The religious minorities in Bangladesh are malauns (an insulting slang hurled upon non-Muslims) and qafirs (non-believers in Islam) and have got no right to live in that country and find no option but to flee Bangladesh in order to save their lives and honour. And, on setting foot on the Indian soil they are termed ‘illegal immigrants’. Indian law-enforcing agencies sue them and ultimately these ill-fated, poor and hapless creatures are pushed into the inimical territory back. Do the Bengali-speaking religious minorities from Bangladesh really deserve this sort of treatment?

Now, the call of the hour for over fifty million sandwiched population is to get united and fight back to get rid of this intolerable and humiliating environment of suffocation and identify the traitors for achieving the ultimate goal. It goes without saying that nothing good could be expected from corrupt, sick and paralyzed brains.