PM meets Bangladesh’s Yunus amid strained ties, 1st since Sheikh Hasina’s ouster

Amid strained ties between India and Bangladesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with Bangladesh’s chief adviser Muhammad Yunus in Thailand.

The first since the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina regime last August. The two leaders, who were in Thailand for the BIMSTEC summit, had a firm handshake before sitting down for bilateral talks.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday met Bangladesh chief advisor Muhammad Yunus on the sidelines of the ongoing sixth BIMSTEC Summit in Thailand’s Bangkok on Friday.

The two nations saw tensions in ties due to differences over the alleged instances of violence targeting Hindu minorities in Bangladesh and India’s decision to grant asylum to Sheikh Hasina.

Tensions in bilateral ties also seem to have escalated after Yunus’s comment on India’s northeastern states during his visit to the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) annual conference in China.