Dhaka's Self Goal in Beijing

Interim leader's insensitive remarks on India's Northeast do not augur well for bilateral ties

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India-Bangladesh ties have been on a slippery slope ever since a motley group of anti-Awami League actors deposed the Sheikh Hasina government and forced the latter to seek refuge in India. New Delhi has been lukewarm to the new dispensation in Dhaka, which failed to prevent mob attacks on religious minorities in that country. Dhaka's outreach to Islamabad and Beijing and its tacit backing of attempts to erase Sheikh Mujib's legacy and India's role in the 1971 liberation war have also made India taciturn towards the overtures made by the chief advisor of Bangladesh's interim government, Muhammad Yunus.