Will PM Modi fulfill Bangladesh’s Yunus in Bangkok?–

After the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) verified days ago that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will certainly take part in the BIMSTEC Summit in Thailand, there was conjecture over the head of state’s feasible conference with Bangladesh acting federal government’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus.

Dhaka has actually been striving to set up a standalone conference in between PM Modi and Yunus in Bangkok today. However, there has actually been no word yet from New Delhi on the feasible interaction, Times of India reported on Monday.

The signals arising from Dhaka suggest that the acting program is exceptionally eager for the conference which it declares can place connections back on course.

According to a News 18 record, pointing out very put resources, no reciprocal conference has actually been set up in between both leaders.

Yunus lately saw China where he sent out a message to India by introducing a collection of contracts. He presumed regarding assert that Bangladesh alone might supply accessibility to the sea for India’s northeastern states.

Yunus urged Beijing to broaden its financial impact in Bangladesh, controversially recommending that the landlocked standing of India’s northeastern states might provide a possibility.

His comments, apparently made throughout a four-day see to China, started distributing on social networks on Monday.

Yunus, that satisfied President Xi Jinping and authorized 9 contracts throughout the journey, claimed, “The seven states of India, the eastern part of India, are called the seven sisters. They are a landlocked region of India. They have no way to reach out to the ocean.”

Calling Bangladesh as the “only guardian of the ocean” in the area, he claimed this might be a significant chance and might be an expansion of the Chinese economic situation.

Amid all this, PM Modi welcomed Yunus and the nation’s individuals on the event of Eid- ul-Fitr on Monday, looking for more powerful relationship in between both nations.

“May the bonds of friendship among our countries grow stronger,” PM Modi claimed in his message, which was shared by the principal consultant’s press wing.

PM Modi claimed as the honored month of Ramzan ends, “I take this moment to extend warm greetings and felicitations to you and the people of Bangladesh on the joyous occasion of the festival of Eid al-Fitr”.

According to News 18, the Bangladeshi leader has actually been looking for a conference with PM Modi for the previous couple of months however at the eye of the tornado has actually been the problem of physical violence versus Hindu minorities in Bangladesh, which the Indian facility has actually attempted to elevate at several systems.

Formally, India has actually not had the ability to connect with Bangladesh given that the neighbor has a caretaker federal government and not a chosen one.

India shares deep historic, social, and etymological connections with Bangladesh, rooted in their collective initiatives throughout Bangladesh’s freedom. These links continue also after the caretaker federal government took workplace in August in 2015.

Recently, the Indian federal government educated a legislative board regarding its interaction with the acting federal government on state worries, local protection, climbing extremism, strikes on minorities, and financial development.

As current as March 1, 2025, the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council launched a press declaration that physical violence versus spiritual and ethnic minorities and aboriginal neighborhoods has actually proceeded. Between August 4 and December 31, 2024, there were 2,184 reported strikes targeting minorities.

On December 10, 2024, the Bangladeshi federal government revealed the apprehension of 70 individuals about 88 instances of such strikes.

India has actually continuously prompted Bangladesh to take concrete actions to safeguard minority legal rights and advertise incorporation and resistance. However, the Bangladeshi federal government has not just fell short to recognize the organized oppression of minorities however has actually additionally minimized the degree of physical violence versus Hindus given that August 2024.

“Chief Adviser Md. Yunus, along with other advisers, terms the reports of atrocities against minorities in Bangladesh as media exaggeration and have tried to justify them as not communal but as ‘political killings’ of the Awami Leaguers. On January 12, 2025, the Office of Chief Adviser released a press statement that police investigation has found that over 98 per cent attacks on minorities from a total of 1,415 incidents that were verified between August 4-20, 2024, were “politically motivated” and “did not have any communal colour as being reported in Bangladesh”, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri claimed in a discussion made to the standing board for exterior events on March 26.

Relations in between India and Bangladesh have actually degraded given that the loss of the Sheikh Hasina federal government on August 5. Following weeks of anti-government demonstrations, Hasina surrendered as the head of state of Bangladesh and took off to India and has actually been remaining below under limited protection given that.

With inputs from companies