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New Delhi
India’s High Commissioner-designate to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi’s remarks suggesting that India and Bangladesh should “become one” successful their efforts were “certainly condemnable”, said Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JeI) Ameer Shafiqur Rahman connected Saturday.
In a connection posted connected societal media, Mr. Rahman stated that India and Bangladesh are some autarkic countries and that the Tarique Rahman authorities should question clarification from Mr. Trivedi.
“Yesterday, aft the accomplishment of the caller Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Mr. Dinesh Trivedi, 1 of his remarks came to our attention. We judge our authorities should question clarification from him regarding what helium meant by the operation ‘India and Bangladesh becoming one’,” said Mr. Rahman portion asserting Bangladesh’s autarkic identity.
Mr Trivedi, who reached Bangladesh done the Benapole-Petrapole onshore crossing, astir 112 km from Kolkata, told reporters that helium did not consciousness similar a foreigner aft entering the territory of Bangladesh. “We person a colonisation of 140 crore and Bangladesh has 20 crore people. Whatever we do, we person to bash it together. We cannot beryllium almighty successful isolation,” said Mr. Trivedi.
Responding to Mr. Trivedi’s remarks, Mr. Rahman said, “The contented needs to beryllium made clear. Just arsenic India is an autarkic country, Bangladesh is besides an autarkic country. If his connection is not clarified, it volition surely make disorder among the public.”
Mr. Trivedi is the archetypal governmental appointee to the station of the Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh since the state attained independency successful 1971. Apart from the archetypal High Commissioner, Subimal Dutt, who was summoned to service aft retiring successful 1962, each consequent Indian High Commissioners to Dhaka were vocation diplomats.
The Ministry of External Affairs is yet to marque a connection regarding JeI’s remarks .“If helium meant thing of this quality successful the literal sense, past it is surely condemnable,” said Mr. Rahman, who leads the 77-member beardown Opposition bloc successful the Jatiya Sangsad, the unicameral legislative assemblage of Bangladesh.
In the February 2026 election, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led by Tarique Rahman, won 212 of 300 seats, portion the 11-party confederation led by Jamaat-e-Islami won 77 seats. The JeI, with 68 seats, emerged arsenic the main Opposition party.
Since the autumn of the Sheikh Hasina government, Mr. Rahman-led JeI has positioned itself arsenic an important governmental subordinate successful Dhaka, and helium is often seen engaged with overseas diplomats. He met U.S. Ambassador Brent T. Christensen astatine the National Parliament gathering on June 9 and discussed “regional and planetary issues”.
He has besides met diplomats of respective different countries and blocs, similar the European Union, implicit the past respective months arsenic helium tries to task a much “pragmatic side” of the Jamaat-e-Islami, which has agelong faced allegations of carrying retired crimes against humanity successful enactment of Pakistani forces during Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War.
Last year, Mr. Rahman had created a flutter successful Dhaka’s governmental circles aft helium claimed that an authoritative of India’s outer quality wing, R&AW, had met him aft helium underwent a bosom country successful 2025.
