Tarique Rahman, co-convener of the Bangladesh Gono Odhikar Parishad and a key adviser to Nurul Haque Nur, launched an attack on Hindu minorities by claiming that the scriptures of the Hindu faith are pornographic and do not provide any moral teaching.

The Bangladesh opposition party’s campaign to topple the Bangladeshi government has been led by Nurul Haque Nur. General elections are to be held in Bangladesh in 2024.

Tarique Rahman, the joint convener of Bangladesh’s opposition party Gono Odhikar Parishad, said that Hindu scriptures do not offer any moral teaching and are porn texts.

“Scriptures of the Hindu religion do not offer any moral teaching — all the religious scriptures are porn scripts,” Rahman said in a Facebook live telecast.

Rahman is a close ally of opposition leader Nurul Haque Nur, who plans to challenge Bangladesh’s current Sheikh Hasina-led administration in the 2024 general election.

The video has gone viral on social media and is also being widely shared by many people. The speech received a lot of condemnation on social media, with many users drawing parallels between it

Reportedly streaming Facebook Live from Saudi Arabia, Nur also attacked the free press harshly, calling journalists slaves. He advised journalists not to question his mission in the same video.

In Bangladesh, attacks against Hindus are nothing new. According to the most recent statistics, the country saw the murder of around 154 members of religious minorities in 2022