After the Jummah prayers on Friday, the streets of major Bangladeshi cities, including Dhaka and the country's second-largest city, Chattogram, witnessed large Islamist gatherings. Hardliners from radical outfits such as Hefazat-e-Islam and Intifada Bangladesh were in attendance, and demanded a ban on the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), which they described as an "extremist Hindutva organisation".
The demand comes amid a High Court plea, where Bangladesh's interim set-up led by Muhammad Yunus described the ISKCON as a "religious fundamentalist organisation" in response to a writ petition seeking its ban. The backdrop also includes attacks on Hindu temples and ISKCON centres in Bangladesh, as well as the imprisonment of Krishna Das Prabhu, a former ISKCON member who wa
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