‘India does not endorse Hasina’s criticism of Yunus government’: Foreign secretary tells House panel
The situation regarding attacks on minorities in Bangladesh appeared to be improving, Vikram Misri said.
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New Delhi does not endorse the criticism of the interim government in Dhaka by deposed Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs on Wednesday, The Hindu reported.
Misri also told the committee headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor that this issue remained a minor point of tension in the relationship between New Delhi and Dhaka.
The foreign secretary met the committee after visiting Dhaka on Monday.
Hasina resigned as Bangladesh’s prime minister and fled to India on August 5 amid protests against her Awami League government. Nobel laureate economist Muhammad Yunus took over as the head of an interim government on August 8.
Following the collapse, several incidents of violence against religious minorities were reported in Bangladesh. Tensions escalated in the past few weeks after three Hindu monks were arrested on charges of sedition and several Hindu temples came under attack.
On December 4, Hasina, in a video message for an event in New York, alleged that Yunus was failing to safeguard religious minorities in Bangladesh and accused him of committing a “genocide” in the country.
On Wednesday, Misri told the committee that Hasina was using “private communication devices” to make her remarks and claimed that the Indian government was not involved in providing her with a platform or resources to conduct her political...
