‘Bangladesh has assured action against perpetrators’: Foreign secretary tells MPs after Dhaka visit

PTI, 11 December, 2024, New Delhi :  Bangladesh has assured action against perpetrators of violence against minorities in that country, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri told the parliamentary standing committee on external affairs on Wednesday, according to sources.

“Foreign Secretary has returned yesterday from there (Bangladesh). So fresh of the trip, he was able to give us a thorough briefing. All the important questions that you can imagine were asked by the MPs, the committee’s chairperson of the committee and senior Congress MP Shashi Tharoor told reporters after the meeting where Misri briefed the panel on the subject ‘Future of India-Bangladesh Relationship’.

“There was a good 21-22 MP turnout and a lot of questions were asked and the Foreign Secretary answered comprehensively,” he said.

Sources said several MPs asked Misri about the status of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s stay in India. However, Misri’s reply to the queries was not immediately known.

Misri is also understood to have told the panel that contrary to media reports, Bangladesh’s interim government head Muhammad Yunus did not talk about review of any bilateral agreements with India.

Tharoor is said to have asked Misri about the possibility of MPs going to Bangladesh.