India rejects neighbor’s interference allegations
India has rejected allegations by Bangladesh that its territory is being used for activities damaging to its eastern neighbor.
On Sunday, Bangladesh summoned India’s high commissioner to Dhaka, Pranay Verma, to convey what it termed as its concerns over ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina being allowed to make continued “incendiary” statements from Indian soil.
“We have consistently reiterated our position in favor of free, fair, inclusive, and credible elections being held in Bangladesh in a peaceful atmosphere,” the Indian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
India has never allowed its territory to be used for activities inimical to the interests of the friendly people of Bangladesh, the statement said.
Dhaka had also reiterated its demand for the extradition of Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, to face sentences by its judicial authorities.
Hasina and Kamal have been sentenced to death by a Bangladeshi court in a crimes against humanity case, after being found guilty of ordering a violent crackdown on student protests in 2024.
Hasina, who fled to India after the uprising, said in a recent interview with RT that the verdict was a “foregone conclusion.”
The chief adviser of the interim Bangladesh government currently running the country is Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohammad Yunus.
Bangladesh is slated to hold elections in 2026. Hasina’s Awami League, which had been in power for 15 years before the uprising, has been barred from participating.
