India-Bangladesh Relation: It is known that the new interim government of Bangladesh has sent this notice on Wednesday. Five ambassadors including the High Commissioner of Bangladesh in India have been asked to hand over all powers and return to Bangladesh immediately.
Dhaka: New turn in India-Bangladesh relationship. The interim government led by Muhammad Yunus has ordered Bangladeshi ambassadors present in India along with the High Commissioner to return home. According to sources, five ambassadors in India have been ordered to return to Bangladesh.
It is known that the new interim government of Bangladesh has sent this notice this week. Five ambassadors including the High Commissioner of Bangladesh in India have been asked to hand over all powers and return to Bangladesh immediately.
According to sources, Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Mustafizur Rahman is scheduled to retire within the next few months. Before that he was asked to leave his duties and return to the country. He was appointed as the Ambassador of India in 2022. Before that, he served as the representative of Bangladesh at the United Nations Headquarters and also as the representative of Switzerland and Singapore.
However, according to an unnamed source, not only India, but ambassadors from Belgium, Australia, Portugal, Brussels, Canberra, Lisbon have also been asked to return to Bangladesh. Even Bangladesh, a permanent member of the United Nations, has been asked to return immediately. Earlier, Bangladesh’s ambassador to Britain, Saida Muna, had also ordered Tasnim to return.
Meanwhile, many are unhappy with this decision of the foreign ministry of the interim government of Bangladesh. According to sources, they have complained of arbitrariness. After the change of power in Bangladesh, the Yunus government removed all the officials appointed by the Hasina government. But ambassadors are not politically appointed. In that case, why they are being asked to leave their duties and return to the country, a section of the bureaucrats have raised questions.
Incidentally, the Awami League government fell in a mass coup in Bangladesh on August 5. Sheikh Hasina was forced to resign from the post of Prime Minister and flee to India. After that a new interim government was formed in Bangladesh under the leadership of Nobel laureate economist Muhammad Yunus. Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself has expressed concern over the attacks on minority Hindus in the new Bangladesh. On the other hand, the Yunus government is also putting constant pressure on India for Hasina’s return. Although the representatives of India and Bangladesh attended the recent United Nations meeting, PM Modi and Mohammad Yunus did not meet face to face. Diplomats believe that the decision to withdraw the ambassador is very significant in this situation.
