Bangladesh-India relations

A few days ago, Bangladesh foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali visited New Delhi for the third meeting of the Bangladesh-India Joint Consultative Commission (JCC), where Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for concrete steps to promote Bangladesh-India trade and investment, as improved connectivity would promote economic cooperation and strengthen people-to-people ties.

We appreciate Indian PM's remarks. At the same time, we want to say that Bangladesh-India trade and investment shouldn't mean monopolistic business of Indian products in Bangladesh, as we see now. Better ties and connectivity come from a balanced relation, not from an unequal relationship.

Nurjahan Haq
Dhanmondi, Dhaka