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The overseas secretaries of Bangladesh and India met in Dhaka on Monday to debate relations between the neighbours, together with rising tensions because the fall of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled into exile in India in August.
The tensions have grown over the current arrest in Bangladesh of a Hindu priest beneath the interim authorities led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. Alleged assaults on minority Hindus in Bangladesh and on a Bangladesh diplomatic mission in India had been anticipated to function prominently within the talks. India stopped issuing visas for Bangladeshis besides emergency medical visas after Ms Hasina’s ouster.
Indian overseas secretary Vikram Misra was holding the daylong talks together with his Bangladeshi counterpart Mohammad Jashim Uddin within the first high-level go to by an Indian official since huge protests ended Ms Hasina’s 15-year rule.
Ms Hasina is regarded as a trusted good friend of Hindu-majority India, which has raised considerations over allegations of assaults on spiritual minorities, particularly Hindus, in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, since her ouster.
Most Bangladeshi Hindus are regarded as supporters of Ms Hasina’s secular Awami League get together.
A Hindu mob lately attacked a Bangladeshi diplomatic workplace in Agartala, the capital of the northeastern Indian state of Tripura, in response to the arrest of Hindu priest Chinmoy Das Prabhu, who had led massive rallies in current months demanding higher safety for Hindus in Bangladesh. Late final month, Hindu protesters additionally burned Bangladeshi flags in Kolkata, the capital of India’s japanese state of West Bengal, triggering protests by the Yunus authorities.
Different political events, together with the Bangladesh Nationalist Occasion headed by Khaleda Zia, Ms Hasina’s major political foe, and Islamist teams have protested in opposition to the assaults in Tripura.
Hindus additionally protested in components of India in opposition to alleged assaults on Hindus in Bangladesh and the jailing of Mr Prabhu.
Mr Misra is to pay courtesy calls on Mr Yunus and overseas adviser Touhid Hossain earlier than leaving for New Delhi afterward Monday.
