Significance of Sheikh Hasina’s second India journey in a month

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina shall be visiting India from June 21, which shall be her second journey to the oldest and largest democracy on the planet throughout the hole of simply 15 days. Earlier, from June 8-10 she visited India to attend the oath-taking ceremony of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.  Sheikh Hasina’s forthcoming go to would be the first bilateral held by India beneath the Modi 3.0 authorities. In line with Hindustan Instances, Bangladesh is eager on organising a bilateral assembly between Hasina and Modi earlier than the previous departs for a 3-days official go to to China from July 9-12 as an effort to strike a stability between Dhaka and Delhi.

Media experiences say the one-day-long summit between Sheikh Hasina and Narendra Modi will heart on protection partnership, cross-border connectivity, commerce, amongst different issues. In line with the Financial Instances report, the 2 sides may even talk about holding a joint army train. India has already supplied a US$500 million line of credit score to Dhaka which is but to be utilized.

PM Modi and Hasina may even assessment the general bilateral relationship together with assessing the assorted developmental tasks undertaken by each nations together with highway, rail and connectivity.

In the meantime, in accordance with Bangladesh’s Ministry of International Affairs supply, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi can be anticipated to pay an official go to to Bangladesh someday this yr, when Bangladesh shall accord a grand reception to the Indian Prime Minister.

Dhaka’s main English newspaper The Each day Star in a report quoting sources in Bangladesh Excessive Fee in New Delhi and Indian Ministry of Exterior Affairs stated, “The choice for a bilateral go to to India is considerably sudden, however management of the 2 nations wished to have the go to now after the elections in each nations”.

The sources additional stated the leaders of the 2 nations wish to advance the prevailing relations which have deepened over greater than a decade, particularly in commerce and connectivity.

Commenting on Sheikh Hasina’s July 9-12 official journey, Chinese language Ambassador to Bangladesh, Yao Wen instructed reporters, Beijing is emphasizing on boosting funding in Bangladesh and enhancing bilateral relations. He emphasised the go to’s significance in selling commerce, funding, and cultural change, aligning with Dhaka’s aspirations for ‘Imaginative and prescient 2041’ and the actualization of a ‘Good Bangladesh’.

Ambassador Yao Wen stated, “Will probably be one other historic one. Will probably be a game-changer. It’s going to open a brand new chapter”.

It might be talked about right here that the historic ties between Bangladesh and India are deeply rooted, with India enjoying a pivotal function in Bangladesh’s liberation warfare in 1971. Nonetheless, it’s beneath the management of Modi and Hasina that these ties have been considerably strengthened.

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Commenting on the prevailing relationship between Dhaka and New Delhi, Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League stated, “the connection between Bangladesh and India has reached unprecedented ranges of cooperation and mutual respect beneath the visionary management of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina”. The dynamic management of Modi and Hasina has fostered stronger bilateral ties, enhancing collaboration throughout numerous sectors together with commerce, connectivity, protection and cultural change.

Narendra Modi’s management since 2014 has been characterised by a proactive and strategic method to international coverage, notably with neighboring nations. His relationship with Sheikh Hasina has been marked by mutual respect and a shared imaginative and prescient for regional stability and prosperity. This camaraderie has performed an important function in overcoming historic challenges and fostering a spirit of collaboration and belief.

In my view, the forthcoming official go to of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India must be seen as extraordinarily essential due to a lot of points that features, the current homicide of Bangladeshi lawmaker in West Bengal and stunning revelation of a proven fact that the Trinamool Congress administration beneath Mamata Banerjee has been letting terrorists, fugitives, jihadists and Rohingyas often infiltrate into India by illegally crossing the Indo-Bangladesh borders and revel in alternative of utilizing West Bengal, together with its capital metropolis Kolkata as protected haven.

One other essential difficulty is Bangladesh Prime Minister’s current remarks about a number of Western nations, together with america and Britain conspiring to create a Christian state taking components of Bangladesh, India and Myanmar. This was disclosed by Sheikh Hasina when she instructed high leaders of 14-party alliance of ruling Awami League stating, a plot is on to carve out “a Christian state like East Timor” taking components from Bangladesh and Myanmar”. Though she refrained from mentioning the title of India, it was clearly acknowledged in a quantity of articles penned by me which appeared in native and worldwide media. Later the matter was additionally echoed in a quantity of Indian information shops thus proving, there’s a critical ongoing conspiracy of the Western nations to carve out a Christian state inside Bangladesh, India and Myanmar.

It might be talked about right here that, speaking to Russian media outlet Sputnik, two outstanding figures within the ruling Awami League authorities supplied additional particulars on this Western conspiracy.

Commenting on Bangladesh Prime Minister’s assertion, Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, former Media Advisor to the Bangladesh Prime Minister stated, “the prime minister doesn’t communicate with out correct proof. I’m certain she will need to have thought out effectively earlier than making these statements”.

He warned that one other US base in South Asia would have safety implications not just for Dhaka but additionally for New Delhi.

One other outstanding chief of the ruling celebration, Squadron Chief (retired) Sadrul Ahmed Khan, who’s a member of the Awami League’s finance and planning affairs sub-committee instructed Sputnik, “it was clear that the US has been attempting to make inroads within the South Asian area by way of its help for anti-government forces, which embody the Nationwide Unity Authorities (NUG) and Folks’s Protection Forces (PDF)”.

He added, “Because the Kuki-Chin rebels in Myanmar are majority Christian, they seem comparatively liable to manipulations by international actors. The Kuki-Chin rebels in Myanmar’s China state are concerned in intense combating with the Myanmar authorities forces”.

Khan, in the meantime, identified that America’s tacit backing of Kuki-Chin rebels has safety implications for not solely Bangladesh and Myanmar but additionally India, which additionally has a big inhabitants of the ethnic group within the northeastern states, similar to Manipur.

Sputnik in its report stated, “Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh claimed in February that the “unnatural progress” of Chin-Kuki-Zo tribes has implications for nationwide safety. The north-eastern Indian state has been experiencing ethnic clashes between the bulk Meiteis and Kuki-Zo teams since final Might, resulting in over 200 deaths and tens of hundreds of individuals being internally displaced”.

Earlier, in June 2023, there was a rumor in Dhaka stating Washington is demanding St. Martin Island in change for favor of the ruling Awami League authorities.

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