“How radicalism in Bangladesh threatens India’s ‘Chicken Neck’”, First Post, August 25, 2024:
“The circumstances under which the ouster of Sheikh Hasina has happened in our neighbouring country are not only a dark chapter in the history of Bangladesh but are also bad news for the whole of the Indian subcontinent. Bangladesh, run by the Awami League under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina, used to be a friendly neighbour—a nation India could geopolitically rely on in matters of national security and cross-border diplomacy.
Under her leadership, Bangladesh also used to be a relatively safer place for its minorities, specifically Hindu minorities, that were always under threat from radical Islamist organisations such as Jamaat-e-Islami. The political landscape of Bangladesh has abruptly changed almost overnight; it has become a harbinger of death and destruction for its minorities and a forerunner of geopolitical trouble for Indian diplomacy.
Superficially, the story started with “student protests” demanding a rollback of a job quota given to the family members of war veterans, but within no time, the protests evolved into an anti-state march, and before you knew it, the government fell…..”
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