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Days aft the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led (BNP) authorities took charge aft scoring a major electoral win, Bangladesh is moving towards normalising visa facilities for Indian visitors, a diplomatic root has confirmed to The Hindu. However, a ceremonial notification successful this respect is yet to beryllium issued by Bangladesh.
Bangladesh had halted issuing of visas successful December 2025 erstwhile Indian missions faced protestation and respective incidents of chromatic pelting targeting Indian missions and visa centres were reported successful Bangladesh. Subsequently, protests were held successful India targeting Bangladesh’s High Commission successful New Delhi arsenic good arsenic visa centres successful West Bengal. Against this backdrop, the High Commission of Bangladesh had paused visa issuance and issued a public notice successful this regard.
Visa had been 1 of the large areas that faced disruption with the overthrow of the Sheikh Hasina authorities successful Bangladesh successful July-August 2024. As per diplomatic sources, India utilized to contented much than 8 1000 regular visas for Bangladesh done aggregate Indian visa centres successful Bangladesh earlier the overthrow of the Hasina regime. However, pursuing the large disruption of July-August 2024, Indian Visa Application Centres opened sporadically due to the fact that of information threats. As per diplomatic sources, India isssued astir 3,000 aesculapian and pupil visas and astatine the clip of the swearing-in of BNP’s Chairman Tariq Rahman who became the caller Prime Minister of Bangladesh connected February 17, 2026.
The visa-related statements came soon aft the Ministry of External Affairs connected Friday (February 20, 2026) expressed willingness to instrumentality the bilateral narration forward. Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs Randhir Jaiswal had said successful Friday’s play briefing, “Building connected the lukewarm and historical ties betwixt the 2 countries, India looks guardant to further strengthening our multifaced bilateral ties with Bangladesh.”
