Rajnath Singh visits Bangladesh High Commission, signs condolence for Khaleda Zia

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh connected Thursday (January 1, 2026) visited the Bangladesh High Commission successful New Delhi and expressed his condolence connected the demise of erstwhile Bangladesh premier curate Khaleda Zia.

Sharing a photograph of his sojourn connected X, Mr. Singh said, "Went to the High Commission of Bangladesh successful New Delhi. Signed the Condolence Book expressing our profound sorrow astatine the passing of erstwhile Prime Minister and BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia. Our thoughts are with her household and the radical of Bangladesh."

Zia, the longtime main of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), died aboriginal Tuesday successful Dhaka aft a prolonged illness. She was 80.

The archetypal pistillate premier curate of Bangladesh and the 2nd successful the Muslim satellite aft Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto, Zia dominated the country's authorities for decades.