DHAKA: Bangladesh has requested India to cease ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from making “false and fabricated” feedback whereas she is within the nation, its international ministry mentioned.
Sheikh Hasina fled to India in August following violent protests that killed greater than 1,000 individuals.
In a web-based handle on Wednesday, she known as on her supporters to face towards the interim authorities in Bangladesh, accusing it of seizing energy unconstitutionally.
Hundreds of protesters attempting to disrupt Hasina’s handle had demolished and set hearth to the house of Mujibur Rahman, her father and Bangladesh’s founding chief. The violence continued after Hasina spoke.
Bangladesh’s international ministry handed over a protest be aware to India’s performing excessive commissioner in Dhaka, conveying “deep concern, disappointment and severe reservation” over her feedback, it mentioned on its Fb web page.
“The ministry … requested … India to instantly take applicable measures, within the spirit of mutual respect and understanding, to cease her from making such false, fabricated and incendiary statements,” it mentioned.
Sheikh Hasina couldn’t be contacted for remark.
Though India didn’t touch upon the communication from Bangladesh, International Ministry Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal condemned the destruction of Rahman’s residence as an “act of vandalism”.
“All those that worth the liberty battle that nurtured Bangla identification and pleasure are conscious of the significance of this residence for the nationwide consciousness of Bangladesh,” he mentioned.
It was in the identical home that Rahman declared Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan in 1971, and he and most of his household had been assassinated inside its partitions in 1975.
Hasina reworked the constructing right into a museum devoted to her father’s legacy.
The interim authorities’s chief adviser, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, appealed to individuals on Friday to revive legislation and order and guarantee there have been no extra assaults on properties linked to Hasina’s household or politicians from her Awami League get together.
“Any assaults to their properties offers them an excuse to attract worldwide consideration to themselves and dish out their fabricated tales … Any deterioration of legislation and order will give a mistaken message to the world,” he mentioned.
Bangladesh has been grappling with political strife since Hasina was ousted, with the interim authorities struggling to keep up legislation and order amid persevering with unrest.
India and Bangladesh, which share a 4,000 kilometre (2,500 miles) border, have longstanding cultural and enterprise ties.