Indian YouTube Channel Sparks Outrage with Threats and False Claims about Bangladesh
An Indian YouTube channel has been relentlessly spreading vile and baseless allegations against several Bangladeshi political and business leaders. The host of the channel even issued a threat of a so-called “surgical strike” against Bangladesh during one of its talk shows. The same channel has repeatedly come under heavy criticism in the past for circulating outrageous falsehoods and concocted distortions about Bangladesh. Not only in Bangladesh—politicians and civil society members in Kolkata have also sharply condemned the channel.
Many in Kolkata have labelled its host, Mayukh, as mentally unstable, uploading various videos on YouTube and social media mocking his behaviour.
However, what the channel has done this time amounts to a direct threat against a free and sovereign state.
A talk-show segment of the Kolkata-based YouTube channel “R Dot Bangla” containing such fabrications was shared on the verified Facebook page of Anindya Islam Amit, acting organising secretary of the BNP’s central committee. Amit expressed strong outrage after sharing the video and also reacted to it in the media group run by the Jashore District BNP.
Commenting there, Amit said that the claim made in the talk show—that “anti-India plots were hatched in Jashore”—was an outright lie. He further described the story of a Pakistani leader supposedly visiting Jashore as “a cinematic tale” and “sheer fantasy.”
Amit’s cousin Tanvirul Islam Sohan, general secretary of the Jashore Chamber of Commerce, was also targeted by the channel’s falsehoods. The show claimed Sohan was a member of Hizb-ut-Tahrir—a statement Amit condemned as “a heinous lie.”
The talk show also cast aspersions on Amar Desh editor Mahmudur Rahman and Ad-Din Foundation head Dr Sheikh Mohiuddin. The host falsely identified Mahmudur Rahman as a “BNP central leader,” which is entirely untrue.
Responding on Facebook, Amit wrote that Ad-Din’s Executive Director Dr Mohiuddin has been out of the country for quite some time, yet the Indian media claimed he had been seen in CCTV footage.
Mahmudur Rahman did visit Jashore recently, but the claim that Amit arrived with him at the airport that day is also completely false. The actual fact is: Mahmudur Rahman arrived in Jashore on a morning flight from Dhaka to attend a Prachee Sangha event, while Amit travelled to Dhaka on the return flight.
Expressing regret, the BNP leader said that bizarre fiction and fabricated stories have now become routine in sections of the Indian media. Recently they have been crafting sensationalised tales aimed at character assassination of Bangladeshi politicians.
Unperturbed by such slander, Amit recalled a famous quote by Sher-e-Bangla A.K. Fazlul Huq, former Chief Minister of undivided Bengal:
“When Indian newspapers write against me, know that I am on the right path. When they write in my favour, know that I am on the wrong path.”
Amit added that it is unfortunate that the nature of certain Indian media has not changed even in this so-called era of modern civilisation. He urged the people of Bangladesh to remain cautious of such “putrid, view-hungry content creators.”
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