Media doing excesses: minister

During his first visit on Thursday, after five days of the attacks on Hindus and vandalism at temples at Nasirnagar in Brahmanbaria, local lawmaker and livestock and fisheries minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque claimed nothing serious took place during the rampage and media was doing excesses.
‘Only some chaotic incidents took place between 12:00pm and 2:00pm on the day, which police and local administration successfully dealt,’ Sayedul said while
talking at a meeting at Gaura Mandir.
About 200 houses and business establishments and 22 temples of Hindus were vandalised and looted on Sunday by groups of local Muslims at the upazila town and Haripur union.
They came to the upazila town to join protest rallies demanding punishment of Hindu youth Rasraj Das allegedly for sharing a doctored photo which showed an idol set on the Kaaba on his facebook wall on Friday.
‘The job of media is to write news with objectivity. Instead, they raised hue and cry while covering the event. Nothing serious had taken place here,’ he added.
The media always publish negative report instead of doing positive ones, said Sayedul, asking, ‘Why the media didn’t publish the news of financial compensation to four temples,’ 
He also censured human rights activist Sultana Kamal and Hindu Buddha Christian Oikya Parishad leader Rana Das Gupta for not meeting him during their visit at Nasirnagar.
A six-member delegation of Nagarik Committee, led by rights activist Sultana Kamal, and a 10-member team of Oikya Parishad, led by its general secretary Rana Das Gupta, visited different Hindu minority areas, temples to get firsthand information of Sunday’s hate attack on the religious minority.
Talking to reporters, Sultana and Rana both claimed the mayhem on Hindu minorities was ‘certainly pre-planned’, and Rana said one of its motives was to grab land belonging to Hindus by driving them out of their homes.
With reference to an intelligence report of prime minister Sheikh Hasina, the minister said, the report says no people from Hefajat-e-Islam or any people wearing panjabi and tupi took part in the attacks or looting.