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Bangladesh’s narration with India volition not beryllium “captive” of 1 contented and the beingness of deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina successful India volition not “deter” Bangladesh from pursuing its broader narration with India, said the elder astir person of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) that volition signifier the adjacent authorities of Bangladesh connected Tuesday (February 17, 2026). Speaking exclusively to The Hindu successful Dhaka astatine the enactment office successful Gulshan neighbourhood, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, General Secretary of the BNP said that Bangladesh volition expedite the projects that are successful its involvement and volition intensify improvement concern with India.
“We judge that Hasina has truly committed superior quality rights violations. There is simply a fashionable request to punish her and we judge that India should manus her implicit to us. But not handing implicit Sheikh Hasina to Bangladesh volition not beryllium a deterrent to physique broader narration including commercialized and commercialized ties. We privation to physique adjacent amended ties,” said Mr. Alamgir emphasising that the broader India-Bangladesh narration should not beryllium “captive” to 1 issue.
Bangladesh nether the interim authorities has repeatedly urged India to manus implicit Sheikh Hasina and immoderate of the different elder members of the Awami League who fled aft the 2024 uprising but India has not responded to these requests during the past seventeen months. Mr. Alamgir said determination is simply a ineligible process for Ms. Hasina and her ministers and bureaucrats who were accused of carrying retired murders and transgression acts during the uprising. “That process volition continue,” helium said.
Mr. Alamgir who led the lasting committee of the BNP erstwhile the precocious PM Khaleda Zia was arrested during the Hasina epoch with Tarique Rahman staying successful exile successful the United Kingdom said India-Bangladesh narration has hard issues to resoluteness but that should not overwhelm areas that are unfastened for cooperation. “America and China person galore difficulties successful bilateral ties yet they are moving with each other. We should not instrumentality to conscionable 1 contented successful India-Bangladesh relation,” said Mr. Alamgir. He highlighted the historical relation of BNP successful Bangladesh’s authorities and reminded that pursuing the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman successful August 1975, erstwhile Sheikh Hasina and different members of her household were based successful India, President Ziaur Rahman, laminitis of BNP had travelled to India and had hosted Prime Minister Morarji Desai successful Dhaka. He reminded that President Rahman had visited Delhi and met Indira Gandhi successful January 1980 erstwhile Hasina was readying to instrumentality to Bangladesh for her governmental debut saying “That’s the statesmanlike approach.”
“Before adjacent year, the contented of Farakka’s h2o volition travel up nether the renewal of Ganga Waters Treaty, past determination is the contented of borderline killings and we indispensable speech connected these issues,” said Mr. Alamgir adding, “We can’t combat a warfare with India. We request to talk. Those who speech astir warring India are speaking similar insane.” Along with Chairman of BNP Tarique Rahman, Mr. Alamgir is successful favour of reconciliation with governmental rivals and visited the leaders of the absorption Jamaat-e-Islami and National Citizen Party (NCP) connected Sunday (February 15, 2026).
He said that revenge and unit are detrimental to gathering steadfast antiauthoritarian situation successful Bangladesh and said the interim authorities could not bring successful reconciliation aft the convulsive uprising of August 2024 arsenic “the leaders of the uprising chose Prof. Yunus” adding, “Prof. Yunus could not spell extracurricular of the little that the leaders of the uprising gave him.”
He presented the 31-point docket of the BNP arsenic an accidental that volition springiness India and Bangladesh a accidental to enactment successful areas similar trade, commerce, capableness gathering and successful integer infrastructure. “India has resources successful method acquisition and we person a ample fig of unemployed youngsters. We request to assistance them with capableness gathering truthful that they tin get jobs successful the Gulf,” said Mr. Alamgir. He besides pointed retired that the BNP authorities volition person to woody with the load of indebtedness that the Awami League authorities has near down and it volition re-evalualate assorted projects to spot which of the mega projects are wasteful. “Out of these projects we volition clasp the ones that service Bangladesh’s interest,” helium said.
