Relations between India and Bangladesh have reached a new low, with recent remarks by Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar highlighting growing frustrations in New Delhi with Dhaka’s interim government and its shifting stance on bilateral relations, analysts have said.
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“Every day, someone in the interim government stands up and blames India for everything,” Jaishankar complained during a public function in Delhi on Monday.
“You cannot, on the one hand, say I would now like to have good relations with you, but I get up every morning and blame you for everything that goes wrong.
“They have to make up their minds on what kind of relationship they want to have with us, going forward,” the Indian foreign minister said, adding that the two countries had a very close relationship going back to 1971.
Jaishankar’s comments came about a week after his meeting with his Bangladeshi counterpart, Touhid Hossain, in Muscat.
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Hossain was quoted by Bangladesh state-run BSS news agency responding to Jaishankar’s comments, saying: “India also needs to decide what kind of relationship it wants with Bangladesh.”