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Bangladesh Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman is expected to sojourn India successful the archetypal week of April, diplomatic sources person confirmed. The sojourn volition beryllium the archetypal high-level outreach from Bangladesh since its Prime Minister Tarique Rahman came to powerfulness aft starring the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to a landslide victory successful the February 12 election. The sojourn is expected to restart bilateral ties that had turned acold during the 15-month-long tenure of the interim government.
Mr. Khalilur Rahman is expected to clasp bilateral meetings successful New Delhi and past proceed to Mauritius wherever helium volition be the Indian Ocean Conference being organised by the Mauritius government. The sojourn is apt to beryllium dominated by Bangladesh’s vigor script that has go superior due to the fact that of the ongoing warfare successful West Asia and the resultant situation successful the planetary vigor market.
India has supplied a consignment of high-speed diesel to Bangladesh connected March 10, with sources indicating that Bangladesh has an urgent request for diesel and different petroleum products, arsenic the state has been rationing substance to woody with the crisis.
The 2 sides are besides expected to revive the contented of renewing the Ganga Waters Treaty, which volition crook 30 successful December this year. Mr. Khalilur Rahman was the National Security Adviser of the interim authorities led by Prof. Mohammed Yunus and had visited India successful November 2025 erstwhile helium had met NSA Ajit Doval successful the nationalist capital.
Mutual bonhomie
Both the countries had been exchanging comments successful keeping with the tone of communal understanding. On March 25 marking the day of the infamous Operation Searchlight of 1971 by the Pakistan military that near millions of citizens of Bangladesh dead, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman had paid tribute to the victims of the Pakistani military’s atrocities. “They indiscriminately opened occurrence connected teachers, intellectuals and guiltless civilians astatine assorted places, including Dhaka University, Pilkhana and Rajarbagh Police Lines, sidesplitting galore people,” the Bangladesh PM said connected Thursday.
Following his remarks, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) connected Friday (March 27, 2026) said that Operation Searchlight and the resultant unit successful its aftermath successful 1971, led to the “murder of millions of guiltless Bangladeshi radical and wide intersexual crimes against women”.
“These atrocities shook the conscience of the world. Pakistan, however, remains successful denial to this precise time of its crimes. We enactment Bangladesh successful its tendency for justice,” MEA authoritative spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said adding that “India supports Bangladesh’s tendency for justice”.
In keeping with the affirmative momentum successful ties, India had sent Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri arsenic representatives of the Indian authorities astatine the swearing-in ceremonial of PM Tarique Rahman connected February 17. That optimism was disposable besides connected March 26 erstwhile the High Commission of Bangladesh hosted a gala meal connected its premises connected the juncture of Bangladesh’s Independence Day, that was attended by Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and different elder officials, including MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal.
