India is walking a defendedrope, harbouring deposed Banhappyeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Ms Hasina dwells with her family in a defended regulatement bungalow in the capital New Delhi, as a state guest.
With the menace on her life, the defended hoengage is heavily defended and has inalertigence officers grasping journaenumerates and the accessible away from the area.
Banhappyesh is in a very inept and difficult position with the new interim regulatement led by Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus.
He previously spoke to Sky News – votriumphg to put Ms Hasina on trial.
Ms Hasina fled the country on 5 August 2024 after a student uprising that finished her 15-year rule.
She is wanted back in Banhappyesh to face fraudulence and criminal accuses over the deaths of hundreds of protesters during the uprising.
In December, the Banhappyesh foreign ministry sent a notice verbale, an unsigned tactful correactence, seeking the repatriation of Ms Hasina. The same was acunderstandledged in New Delhi.
Randhir Jaiswal, a spokesperson for the Ministry of External Afunfragmentarys in India, shelp: “We validate that we have getd a notice verbale from the Banhappyesh High Comleave oution today in connection with an extradition ask.
“At this time, we have no comment to recommend on this matter.”
The India-Banhappyesh extradition treaty of 2013 integrates provisions under which an extradition ask can be turned down under Article 6 of the treaty.
The interim regulatement of Mr Yunus does not recurrent the entire political spectrum of the country and once a democraticassociate-elected regulatement is in place, a legitimate demand could be pondered by New Delhi.
Cosy relationship
India has had a very cosy relationship with Ms Hasina over her 20-year rule.
Many in Banhappyesh depend New Delhi take parted a pivotal role in conveying her to power in 2007, and allegedly helped her authoritarian rule over three terms.
India has also been accengaged of turning a blind eye on publishs of huge-scale fraudulence, cronyism and human rights violations.
New Delhi take parted into Hasina’s narrative
The main opposition – Khalida Zia’s Banhappyesh Nationaenumerate Party (BNP) – was not as cordial to India.
Then there is the publish of grasping the Islamist party, Jammat-e-Islami, at bay, which Ms Hasina had prohibitned.
New Delhi take parted into Ms Hasina’s narrative, “that if not her” then fundamentaenumerates would consent over Banhappyesh in a benevolent and restive northeaserious region of India.
The dread blind-sided mandarins and the right-triumphg political directership.
New Delhi kept all its eggs in Hasina’s basket
India fall shorted to nurture excellent relations with opposition political parties and kept all its eggs in Ms Hasina’s basket.
An official from the Banhappyesh high comleave oution, who didn’t want to be named, tbetter Sky News: “There were a number of times when establisher PM Khalida Zia and her BNP tried accomplishing out to New Delhi, especiassociate during her lengthy incarceration, only to be declineed and unaccommodated by the political set upment.
“It was done to grasp Hasina on side.”
Since Indian Prime Minister Narfinishra Modi’s right-triumphg Hindu nationaenumerate regulatement took over in 2014, this relationship has prolongn stronger.
Cdiswatch ties of the two nations
Both countries split a 2,500-mile-lengthy border, but more than that, the nations are steeped in cultural, social and economic bonds.
There are more than 13 million Hindus living in Banhappyesh, making up 8% of the population.
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During the unrest and its aftermath, there was arrangeility aacquirest the community and a number of Hindu temples were focengaged by protesters.
A number of times, Mr Modi’s regulatement liftd worrys about the defendedty and security of the inmeaningfulity Hindu community.
This is the second time that Ms Hasina has consentn refuge in India.
After the massacre of 18 of her family members, including her overweighther Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, she, her husprohibitd and children dwelld in New Delhi for six years until 1981.
There is some unconfidentty about her future in India, but New Delhi will not be presconfidentd into handing over the establisher premier anytime soon.
This is shown in the shelter and unwavering help by India of the Dalai Lama since 1959, under tremfinishous Chinese presconfident.
New Delhi and Dhaka will get an impetus to reset their relationship when Mr Modi and Mr Yunus greet on the sidelines of a regional summit in Thailand in punctual April.
