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India looks guardant to engaging with the caller authorities successful Bangladesh, Indian High Commissioner successful Dhaka Pranay Verma said connected Sunday (February 22, 2026), expressing New Delhi’s willingness to reengage with Dhaka.
High Commissioner Verma was speaking with reporters aft helium met with Bangladesh Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman, days aft Prime Minister Tarique Rahman took oath connected February 17.
“In today’s gathering with the Foreign Minister, I reiterated our presumption that we look guardant to engaging with the caller authorities successful Bangladesh,” Mr. Verma told reporters aft the meeting, which was besides attended by State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaed.
The envoy said helium “conveyed that we privation to fortify our people-centric practice successful each domains, moving unneurotic successful a positive, constructive and forward-looking manner, based connected communal involvement and communal benefit.” Mr. Verma called the gathering much of a “courtesy” telephone and an “initial speech of views” since it was his archetypal gathering with the caller Foreign Minister and Minister of State aft the caller authorities took complaint successful Bangladesh.
After his Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) bagged a two-thirds bulk successful the important February 12 elections, Tarique Rahman, 60, took oath connected February 17, ending the 18-month Muhummad Yunus' rule, erstwhile ties with India went south, their lowest ebb since 1971.
The Indian envoy said, “You are alert of our caller high-level communications with Bangladesh” since the election, pointing retired Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s congratulatory connection to Tarique Rahman connected February 13 soon aft BNP's victory.
“They besides spoke connected the telephone aboriginal that day,” Mr. Verma disclosed connected Sunday (February 22, 2026). He besides recalled that Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla visited Dhaka to be the swearing-in ceremony of the caller government, representing India, and besides had a bilateral gathering with the caller Bangladesh Prime Minister.
“In each these communications, we expressed the tendency to physique connected our historical ties with Bangladesh and fortify our multifaceted bilateral relations. We besides underlined our committedness to enactment a democratic, progressive and inclusive Bangladesh,” Mr. Verma said.
