PM Modi, Bangladesh’s chief advisor Yunus sit together at BIMSTEC dinner table, likely to meet tomorrow | India News – The Times of India

Nepal’s PM KP Sharma Oli, PM Modi and Bangladesh chief advisor Muhammad Yunus (L to R)

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh chief adviser Muhammad Yunus had been noticed together at the BIMSTEC dinner desk, sitting subsequent to one another, amid the deteriorating ties between the 2 nations because the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August final yr.
As per the PTI information company, PM Modi is anticipated to maintain talks with Yunus right here on Friday.
PM Modi arrived in Thailand on Thursday to attend the sixth BIMSTEC Summit (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Financial Cooperation).

On the dinner desk, together with PM Modi and Yunus, Nepal PM KP Sharma Oli was additionally sitting there.

The encounter between Modi and Yunus holds significance due to the deteriorating relations between India and Bangladesh following Hasina’s removing and the persecution of minority communities in Bangladesh.
The go to got here at the time when Yunus got here again from China, the place his feedback about India’s northeastern area prompted diplomatic stress.
Throughout his latest China go to, Yunus inspired Chinese language financial growth into Bangladesh, making contentious observations about India’s northeastern states’ landlocked standing as a possible benefit.
In his assembly with President Xi Jinping, the place 9 agreements had been signed, Yunus acknowledged, “The seven states of India, the japanese half of India, are referred to as the seven sisters. They’re a landlocked area of India. They haven’t any approach to attain out to the ocean.”
He described Bangladesh because the “solely guardian of the ocean” regionally, suggesting this might profit Chinese language financial growth.
This assertion gained consideration on social media platforms on Monday.
Indian politicians throughout the spectrum criticised these remarks, labelling them as “shameful” and “provocative”.
In the meantime, senior aide of Yunu defended him on Wednesday saying his latest touch upon India’s Northeast was “misinterpreted.”
“He (Yunus) made the assertion with sincere intentions. If folks interpret it in another way, we can not forestall it,” Khalilur Rahman, the Excessive Consultant to Bangladesh’s chief adviser Yunus for the Rohingya situation and different priorities, advised media individuals, in accordance to Bangladesh’s Each day Star newspaper.