Agartala, Jan 6 (NationPress) The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has raised its voice against the brutal killings of Hindus in Bangladesh, demanding an immediate cease to all border trade with the neighboring country. On Tuesday, VHP members staged a protest at the Raghna check post and border trade area along the India-Bangladesh frontier in northern Tripura.

The demonstrators insisted on a complete halt to trade and export activities with Bangladesh.

A significant deployment of security forces was present to ensure law and order during the hours-long protest.

Among the four northeastern states, Tripura hosts the most border trading points with Bangladesh, numbering six, which includes two Integrated Check Posts (ICPs).

These locations facilitate regular trade exchanges between Tripura and Bangladesh.

The northeastern states collectively share a long 1,880-km border with Bangladesh, with Tripura (856 km), Meghalaya (443 km), Mizoram (318 km), and Assam (263 km) housing over a dozen active border trade points.

In recent weeks, violence against Hindus in Bangladesh has escalated, with at least six Hindu men, primarily involved in business, brutally murdered.

On December 18 of the previous year, 25-year-old Hindu youth Dipu Chandra Das was lynched by a mob at his cloth factory in Bhaluka upazila, following false blasphemy accusations. The mob not only killed him but also hung his body from a tree and set it ablaze.

Reports from Bangladeshi media on December 24 mentioned the lynching of another Hindu youth, Amrit Mondal, aged 29, in Hossaindanga, Kalimohar Union.

On December 29, Bajendra Biswas, 40, was shot dead by a colleague in Bhaluka.

Days later, on January 3, Khokon Chandra Das died from severe injuries inflicted by a mob in Shariatpur district. He had been critically wounded and set on fire after being attacked on December 31.

In a shocking incident on January 5, Sarat Chakraborty, 40, was attacked with sharp weapons in Narsingdi district, allegedly by extremists, and succumbed to his injuries en route to a hospital.

That same evening, Rana Pratap Bairagi, 38, was shot dead in public in Jashore district. He owned an ice manufacturing business and was also the acting editor of the newspaper Dainik BD Khobor.

Witnesses reported that three assailants on a motorcycle called him out from his factory before fatally shooting him.

Violence against minorities, particularly Hindus, has been increasing under the leadership of the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in Bangladesh, inciting widespread outrage from various human rights organizations globally.