India, April 15 -- Organizers were forced to cancel the Poila Baisakh, or Bengali New Year, event in Chittagong's DC Hill region in Bangladesh after unidentified people destroyed the stage and banners, disrupting the preparations for the annual celebration.

According to reports, this was the first time Poila Baisakh was not celebrated in DC Hill region in the past 47 years.

Sucharit Das Khokon, the council's coordinator, told bdnews24, "We organisers have decided not to go ahead with the programme following the attack."

"We won't organise the programme. The attack and the administration's lack of cooperation led us to this decision. We've informed the additional deputy commissioner (general) of our decision not to hold the event," he a...