View From The Neighbourhood: Dhaka woes

A weekly look at the public conversations shaping ideas beyond borders — in the Subcontinent.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina. (Express photo: Tashi Tobgyal)

In India, the growing and deepening ties between New Delhi and Dhaka are widely touted as an unmitigated diplomatic success. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to India, then, assumes great significance. The view from our eastern neighbour, though, is not as rosy. Sarwar Jahan Chowdhury, writing in The Dhaka Tribune, remarks, “The renewal of the BJP government in Delhi for another term isn’t something very pleasant for Bangladesh — uncertainty about the consequence of NRC in Assam, little Indian support on the Rohingya issue, persecution of Muslims in India, oppression of Kashmiris, and more.”