India Responds to Sheikh Hasina’s Anti-Yunus Remarks, Calls Out Dhaka

India Responds to Sheikh Hasina’s Anti-Yunus Remarks: India summoned the acting high commissioner of Bangladesh on Friday following Dhaka's demand that New Delhi "stop" the deposed former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from making statements.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) issued a statement indicating that acting high commissioner Md Nurul Islam of Bangladesh was summoned at 5 pm.

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“It was conveyed that India desires a positive, constructive and mutually beneficial relationship with Bangladesh, which has been reiterated several times in recent high-level meetings. It is, however, regrettable that regular statements made by Bangladesh authorities continue to portray India negatively, holding us responsible for internal governance issues. These statements by Bangladesh are in fact responsible for the persistent negativity,” the MEA added.

“Comments attributed to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have been made in her individual capacity in which India has no role to play. Conflating this with the Government of India’s position is not going to help add positivity to bilateral relations,” the statement further read.

“While the Government of India will make efforts for a mutually beneficial relationship we expect that Bangladesh will reciprocate similarly without vitiating the atmosphere,” the government added.

Bangladesh's foreign ministry handed over a protest note to India's acting high commissioner in Dhaka stating its "deep concern, disappointment and serious reservation" regarding her comments, it said on its Facebook page, as reported by Reuters.

"The ministry ... requested ... India to immediately take appropriate measures, in the spirit of mutual respect and understanding, to stop her from making such false, fabricated and incendiary statements," it said.

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Sheikh Hasina, apparently incited against the interim government

In a televised address, Sheikh Hasina called upon her supporters to stand against the interim rule of the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.

She also asked the people of Bangladesh to "resist" the new leaders of the country-apostles as she called them-who had come to power in an "unconstitutional" manner.

During the protests, thousands torched and demolished the house belonging to her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The house in Dhaka was home to Hoshina's late father Sheikh Muhibur Rahman, the independence leader of Bangladesh, who formally declared the country's break from Pakistan there in 1971. He was assassinated there in 1975, and Hasina turned the house into a museum.

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