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Stopping “border killings”, starting dialog for renewal of the Ganga waters agreement, and expanding the fig of aesculapian visas are immoderate of the precedence areas for Bangladesh’s incoming government, sources successful the Bangladesh Nationalist Party told The Hindu on Friday (February 13, 2026).
The BNP, led by its chairman Tarique Rahman, is acceptable to instrumentality to powerfulness successful Dhaka aft 2 decades, pursuing a landslide triumph successful the February 12 Parliamentary election, winning an implicit bulk of seats.
Giving an penetration of the database of deliverables, BNP’s sources said India should urgently woody with the contented of Sheikh Hasina’s beingness connected Indian ungraded arsenic Ms. Hasina has been making comments astir the developments successful her country.
‘Inflames passions’
“Out of each issues, it is the borderline killings by the Border Security Force of India that creates large trouble for the Government of Bangladesh. Reports of killings successful the bordering areas instantly inflames passionateness particularly successful assemblage campuses wherever protests interruption retired escalating the situation,” said a root who is moving connected the neighbourhood projects of the BNP.
The BNP subordinate said that India and Bangladesh person a settled borderline and it makes nary consciousness to sprout to termination someone. “If idiosyncratic is suspected of smuggling, past they should beryllium arrested and not fired upon,” the root argued seeking a much humane attack to the matter.
He further said that India should look into the contented of continued beingness of erstwhile Prime Minister Ms. Hasina and her apical aides connected Indian ungraded arsenic the Awami League leader’s comments volition airs a situation to normalisation of ties and indicated that these issues volition beryllium among the archetypal items that would beryllium discussed by the incoming government.
‘Treaty renewal is due’
The different large contented that volition person to beryllium prioritised, The Hindu was told is the renewal of the Ganga Waters Treaty that volition person to beryllium renewed earlier December 2026. Indian diplomatic sources had flagged that the method teams that were expected to conscionable to robust retired the details of the renewal statement successful the 2 years did not conscionable though the substance featured during the July 2024 sojourn of Ms. Hasina erstwhile she was Prime Minister. Bangladesh volition besides rise the request to reason this pact successful a “fair” manner, the root said.
He further said the fig of aesculapian visas that are issued by India are inadequate and that India indispensable unbend aesculapian visas arsenic it is simply a large people-to-people connector. “We are being pushed to spell to China successful hunt of aesculapian treatment. If pushed by denial of aesculapian visa, we volition find an alternate arsenic successful today’s satellite an alternate volition contiguous itself automatically but our taste commonalities marque aesculapian attraction successful India a much comfy process,” said the root urging India to heighten people-to-people diplomacy.
