The neighbouring country’s persecution of its minority threatens regional stability, compelling India to carefully navigate its response
If nothing else, the saga of the arrest of the militant Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das Prabhu on sedition charges has removed our blinkers from the present dispensation in Bangladesh. With each passing day, the remaining ambiguities over the nature of the regime that assumed charge after toppling Sheikh Hasina’s govt on August 5 have been erased.
First, it is now clear that the centre of power has shifted quite decisively to the Islamists who have the support of the students who were in the forefront of the anti-Hasina demonstrations. Chief adviser and Nobel Prize winner Mohammad Yunus may be nominally at the helm, but events over the past four months have shown that both he and his NGO nominees exist at the mercy of those who seek to overturn the legacy of the 1971 liberation from Pakistan.
