All Bengal Minority Youth Federation, a Muslim youth organisation in India, has demanded removal of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's bust from Baker Hostel in Kolkata.

The Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, stayed in the government dormitory as a student of Islamia College (now Maulana Azad College) in the 1940s.

The statue was installed on February 23, 2011. Earlier, rooms 23 and 24 of the hostel were recognised as Bangabandhu Memorial Museum.

A section of students on Tuesday brought out a procession towards Bangladesh deputy high commission on Bangabandhu Sarani in Kolkata and handed over a memorandum to a local police station.

According to the memorandum [The Daily Star has a copy] addressed to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, they came to learn via media on March 18 that a bust of Bangabandhu was installed at the hostel as West Bengal Communist Party leader Biman Bose had laid garland to the statue on March 17, the birthday of Bangabandhu.

“We feel proud that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman stayed in this hostel for his studies... but don't support installing statue of anybody as it contradicts the ideal of Islam,” says the memorandum signed by the federation's General Secretary Muhammad Kamruzzaman.

On March 20, the Federation sent a similar memorandum addressing Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj.

Baker Hostel Superintendent Dabir Ahmed, said he was unaware of any student discontent or protest staged over the statue. Contacted, an official of Bangladesh deputy high commission in Kolkata said they heard of the demand  but they did not receive any official communication.