On Monday, a group of Hindu expatriates from Bangladesh urged the Indian government to "complete the unfinished population exchange" and demand UN penalties on Bangladesh to safeguard Hindus and other religious minorities in the neighbouring countries.

A group of people of Bangladeshi origin, now living in Europe and North America and associated with the Global Bengali Hindu Coalition, is visiting India's capital. They plan to meet political leaders to discuss the targeting of the Hindu minority in Bangladesh after the Sheikh Hasina government was removed from power in August. The group's members presented a five-point "call to action" to safeguard Hindus, other religious minorities, indigenous people, and tribal groups "under the hostile and pro-jihadist illegal government in Bangladesh" during a news conference held at the Foreign Correspondents Club.

In addition to calling for international intervention, such as the deployment of UN peacekeeping forces in Bangladesh to safeguard minorities, the group urged New Delhi to pursue specific UN sanctions against the "current illegal and hostile regime in Bangladesh due to its "proven misconduct and failure to preserve human rights and dignity of religious minorities." "Unfinished population exchange with lands from the 1947 Partition, enabling the secure resettlement of displaced minorities" was the group's demand. The group did not disclose any additional information about this idea in a statement. According to the group, the Indian government ought to encourage the interim government in Bangladesh to establish "protected zones in Hindu-majority regions to ensure the safety and security" of minorities.

The group urged the Indian government to reassess Bangladesh's contributions to UN peacekeeping missions, as Bangladesh is one of the largest providers of troops for these missions worldwide. It pointed out that India has supported UN peacekeeping quotas for Bangladesh and suggested that the government should rethink this approach. The group's US-based head, Sitangshu Guha, cited India's involvement in the 1971 Bangladeshi independence war when he declared, "India is our best friend; it can help rescue the 20 million Hindus of Bangladesh." He added, “What the Indian government will do is up to the Indian government. We urge the Indian government to help the Hindu community from extinction.”

The Indian government has expressed concerns to Bangladesh’s interim government about the targeting of Hindus and other minorities, as well as the arrest of Bangladeshi monk Chinmoy Krishna Das on sedition charges in November. These issues were also discussed during foreign secretary Vikram Misri’s visit to Dhaka earlier this month, where he held talks with senior officials of the caretaker administration led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. India-Bangladesh relations have worsened since former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned amid widespread protests and sought refuge in India in August. The interim government has called reports of attacks on Hindus, their homes, shrines, and businesses exaggerated, stating it has arrested about 80 people in connection with various incidents in recent weeks.

Guha and Pushpita Gupta, a councillor for the Labour Party in the London borough of Redbridge, asserted that attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh were still going on. Guha claimed that all of Bangladesh's regimes, including Hasina's, had "helped Islamists to flourish" rather than defending Hindus. Bangladesh's reliance on Indian goods was brought up by group member Arun Dutta, who is based in Canada. “If the trucks don’t go [from India], they will go hungry.” With the Hindu population of the erstwhile East Pakistan falling from 22% in 1951 to 7.95% in 2022, Dutta said the Hindus of present-day Bangladesh had suffered injustices since 1947 because no one had protected their interests.

The Bangladesh United Sanatani Awakening Alliance reported 51 incidents of attacks on Hindu temples, orphanages, and crematoriums between August 5 and December 21. According to the report, on December 20, a temple in Natore Sadar upazila was robbed, and the caretaker of the shrine was killed. The stolen items included gold ornaments.