‘Kamala Harris, Joe Biden ignored Hindus’: Donald Trump on violence against minorities in Bangladesh

Former United States President Donald Trump on Thursday condemned the “barbaric violence” against Hindus, Christians and other minorities in Bangladesh and said that the South Asian country remained in a “total state of chaos”.

Trump said that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris had “ignored” Hindus across the world and in the United States. “They have been a disaster from Israel to Ukraine to our own southern border,” the former president said on social media.

He added: “We will also protect Hindu Americans against the anti-religion agenda of the radical left.”

The presidential election in the United States is scheduled to take place on November 5. Trump is the Republican Party’s presidential candidate. He was the president of the United States between 2017 and 2021.

Harris became the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in July after Biden ended his campaign.

Several parts of Bangladesh reported incidents of violence against religious minorities following the collapse of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government on August 5.

Hasina resigned as the prime minister on that day and fled to India after the student-led protests against a controversial quota scheme for government jobs, which started in July, evolved into a broader agitation against her government.

Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate and economist, took over as the head of an interim government on August 8.

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