Fisheries and Livestock Minister Sayedul Haque has denied the allegations brought against him following the Nasirnagar violence.
“I will resign if anyone can prove that I made derogatory remarks about the Hindus after the Nasirnagar attack. ,” he said while briefing the media at Brahmanbaria on Sunday.
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Sayedul met the press to clarify his roles during the incidents of Hindu temples, houses vandalizing in Nasirnagar in the last few days.
He claimed that a group of people have been trying to tarnish his political career by spreading false allegation against him.
On October 30, a section of religious zealots carried out attacks on the Hindus in Nasirnagar upazila of Brahmanbaria over a Facebook post. The photoshopped hurting religious sentiment of the Muslims. The attack left around 58 Hindu households and 17 temples vandalised.
Earlier, the minister had also said that Rasraj, the person whose Facebook account had made the inciting post, was too uneducated to have made it himself.
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In a fresh attack on Friday, miscreants also set fire to at least six houses of Hindus in the upazila while law enforcement agencies and local administration were stationed in the area.
Police, RAB, and BGB have been deployed in Nasirnagar to maintain law and order.
The streak of communal violence has continued in other parts of the country as more reports of attacks on Hindus were reported in Netrokona, Habiganj, and other districts followed.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
