Eminent Bangladeshi economist Dr Abul Barkat said that no Hindus will be left in Bangladesh 30 years from now if the current rate of exodus continues as an average 632 people leaving the country each day.
“The rate of exodus over the past 49 years points to that direction” Barakat said in his book Political economy of reforming agriculture-land-water-bodies in Bangladesh published on November 19.
From 1964 to 2013, around 11.3 million Hindus left Bangladesh due to religious persecution and discrimination .It means on an average 632 Hindus left the country each day and 230,612 annually, Dhaka tribune quoted Barkat as saying.
He pointed out that the exodus mostly happened during the military government’s reign.
The book said that around 774 persons left the country during 2001-2012 while it was 705 before the liberation war.
Dhaka University professor Ajoy Roy said the government grabbed the property of Hindu minorities during the Pakistan regime describing them as enemy property and the same properties were taken by the government after independence as vested property.
These measures by government turned 60 percent of the Bangladeshi Hindus landless.
Retired Justice Kazi Ebadul Haque said the minorities and poor were deprived of their land rights. He suggested that the land management system should be reformed.
