Posters against Muhammad Yunus, the chief adviser to the interim government in Bangladesh, have been put up in different locations of Siliguri over the past two days to protest the alleged attacks on Hindus in the neighbouring country.

Posters have been put up at Kutcheri Road, a prominent thoroughfare of Siliguri, and surrounding areas.

Some organisations have held protest marches in the city, seeking immediate steps to stop the alleged attacks on the Hindu community and arrests of Hindu monks in Bangladesh.

On Wednesday evening, supporters of the Bangiya Hindu Maha Mancha held a rally on Bidhan Road in the city to condemn atrocities against minorities in Bangladesh. They marched to Bidhan Market, the largest retail hub of Siliguri, and appealed to the traders not to sell products made in Bangladesh.

"Our people are facing atrocities in Bangladesh. We appealed to traders not to sell any product of Bangladesh as a mark of protest," said Bikramaditya Mondal, president of the organisation.

In Jalpaiguri, travel company Paryatak Uttarbanga that used to arrange trips for Indians and Bangladeshis announced withdrawal of services for Bangladeshi nationals.

“We are aggrieved with the desecration of our national flag in Bangladesh. People of the minority community in Bangladesh are being attacked. We want the Bangladeshi nationals to publicly apologise for such acts. Till then, we will boycott Bangladeshi tourists,” said Alok Chakraborty, managing director of the company.

He said they had cancelled the trips of some Bangladeshi families who were supposed to visit north Bengal.

“We have cancelled the trip of a 10-member group of Indians from Jalpaiguri to Bangladesh. We don't want Indians to visit Bangladesh now unless it is an emergency,” he added.

Usually, every year, the company arranges trips for around 250 Bangladeshi families to north Bengal and sends 60 to 70 Indian families to Bangladesh.

The company also arranges trips for Bangladeshi nationals who want to visit southern states of India for medical purposes, education and other errands.

“But we will not provide any of these services even if it leads to financial losses,” said Chakraborty.

Some tourism stakeholders are worried about the financial impact of this turmoil on the industry.

Samrat Sanyal, the general secretary of the Himalayan Hospitality and Tourism Development Network, an apex body of tourism stakeholders in north Bengal, said that the unrest in Bangladesh had started affecting cross-border tourism in and around north Bengal.

“We have been facing losses since August this year (after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government on August 5). We always give priority to the interests of our country. Simultaneously, we would like to appeal to the governments of both countries to resolve the differences,” said Sanyal.