Dinesh Trivedi reaches Bangladesh ahead of taking charge as High Commissioner

Democracies are bound to person issues and disputes, and specified differences should beryllium resolved done interactions and dialogue, India’s High Commissioner-designate to Bangladesh, Dinesh Trivedi, said connected Friday (June 12, 2026). Speaking to reporters portion crossing from West Bengal’s Petrapole to Bangladesh’s Benapole, Mr. Trivedi called for practice successful sectors specified arsenic health, exertion and education, and advocated turning the 2 countries into a almighty economical bloc.

“We volition proceed unneurotic by combining the 100 forty crore radical of India and the 20 crore radical of Bangladesh. Bangladesh and India are some beardown democracies and successful democracies determination are bound to beryllium issues but determination has to beryllium interactions to woody with them which is necessary. I volition transportation retired my responsibilities successful that context,” Mr. Trivedi said portion speaking to the media successful Benapole.

“We cannot go almighty successful isolation from each other. Technology, education, wellness and sports are areas wherever we tin enactment unneurotic and bushed the world,” Mr. Trivedi said, urging the media successful Bangladesh to task the combined spot of the populations of India and Bangladesh.

The narration betwixt the 2 countries has remained strained since the uprising of August 2024 that overthrew the authorities of Sheikh Hasina, who remains successful India. Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, who took complaint connected February 17, is expected to statesman his overseas visits this month, archetypal travelling to Malaysia and past to China.

Mr. Trivedi, who has been progressive successful nationalist beingness since the precocious 1980s, is simply a erstwhile Union Minister for Railways and Health and Family Welfare and a three-term subordinate of the Rajya Sabha. Mr. Trivedi, presently a subordinate of the Bharatiya Janata Party successful West Bengal, was appointed India’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh connected April 27 done an announcement by the Ministry of External Affairs.

His predecessor successful Dhaka, Pranay Kumar Verma, has been appointed Ambassador of India to Belgium and the European Union. Mr. Trivedi was received astatine Benapole by Deputy Chief of Mission and existent Chargé d’Affaires astatine the Indian High Commission, Pavan Badhe. Mr. Trivedi is expected to contiguous his credentials to Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin shortly.