Bangladesh asks India to stop Sheikh Hasina from making ‘false’ remarks
Dhaka: Bangladesh has asked India to stop ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from making “false and fabricated” comments while she is in the country.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Hasina fled to India last year following a popular uprising against her rule in Bangladesh. In an online address on Wednesday, she called on people to stand against the interim government in Bangladesh, accusing it of seizing power in an ‘unconstitutional’ manner. Thousands of protesters gathered in Dhaka before Hasina’s address and demolished and set fire to the home of Mujibur Rahman, her father and Bangladesh’s founding leader.
Bangladesh’s foreign ministry handed over a protest note to India’s acting high commissioner in Dhaka, conveying “deep concern, disappointment and serious reservation” over her comments, it said in a statement on its Facebook page.
“The ministry … requested … India to immediately take appropriate measures, in the spirit of mutual respect and understanding, to stop her from making such false, fabricated and incendiary statements … while she is in India,” it said.
“The government hopes that India will not allow its territory to be used for destabilising purposes in Bangladesh,” it said.
