Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s India has accused Bangladesh’s new government of failing to protect the country’s Hindu minority, fuelling tensions between the south Asian neighbours and key regional partners.
Sheikh Hasina, the former prime minister of Bangladesh who was toppled this month after weeks of protests, was close to New Delhi and a linchpin of India’s strategy to counter China and Islamist extremism in South Asia.
But India’s support for her increasingly autocratic government, which ordered a crackdown on student protesters that resulted in hundreds of deaths, has sparked widespread anger towards New Delhi in Bangladesh. Sheikh Hasina fled to India last week.