Visiting Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri has said New Delhi wants to increase engagement with Bangladesh’s Interim Government and make joint and concerted efforts to boost up relations between the two neighbours.

“There is no second thought about increasing the engagements. We see it as beneficial for both countries,” Misri said when he called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna here today.

“We want to carry on from where we left off,” Misri said as they discussed issues of mutual interests.

During the 40-minute meeting, the issues of minorities, misinformation campaigns, ousted dictator Sheikh Hasina’s stay in India, regional cooperation and the July-August mass uprising came for discussion, CA office sources said.

Professor Yunus described relationships between  Bangladesh and India as “very solid” and “close”. He asked India to help clear the “clouds” that have cast a shadow over the relationship between the two neighbours in recent times.

He raised the issue of the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India on August 5 after 15 years of brutal and corrupt dictatorship.বিস্তারিত