India Doesn't Believe US Behind Bangladesh Regime Change: Sullivan

US national security adviser (NSA) Jake Sullivan has called perceptions and allegations of American involvement in street protests and regime change in Bangladesh "preposterous" and said that senior Indian officials don't believe that the US was behind events in Dhaka either.

- Prashant Jha

Acknowledging the aftermath of allegations implicating a government of India official in an assassination plot of an American citizen as a bump in the relationship, Sullivan said India had recently briefed the US on the work of the enquiry committee set up on the issue, and the work of seeking "full accounting and accountability" will continue till the end of the Joe Biden administration on January 20 and even beyond that. But, he added, the manner in which the two countries had managed the issue reflected the "maturity and depth of the bilateral relationship".

Speaking to a select group of reporters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Friday, Sullivan spoke about the US-India relationship as a highlight of the Biden administration's legacy, with a "step change" in the trust they shared and the strategic investment they had made in each other.