Modi government is not thinking about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s extradition at all

Diplomatic Correspondent

In response to a letter sent from Dhaka seeking the extradition of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told reporters on Wednesday that his government was examining the request.

However, several Indian diplomatic channels have said that Jaiswal’s comments are just a formal diplomatic response. The Indian government still considers Sheikh Hasina as the elected and constitutional Prime Minister of Bangladesh. India considers Dr. Yunus’s interim government as unelected and unconstitutional.

As a result, the Indian government has no plans to hand over Sheikh Hasina to them. Meanwhile, all major political parties in India have expressed solidarity in ensuring the security of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Diplomatic sources have said that India is not obliged to accept the demands or demands of anyone who is unelected and unconstitutional, and this is also the voice of the Indian people.

Currently, Sheikh Hasina is engaged in political activities in India under the highest level of security. Other leaders of the Awami League are conducting political activities from India in a safe environment. India is closely monitoring the current political situation in Bangladesh and believes that the common people of Bangladesh are in a critical situation.

Diplomatic experts have confirmed that India is closely monitoring the country’s internal political process, the pattern of court rulings, and the rise of terrorism, while maintaining limited contact with the unelected government of Bangladesh.

India has always supported inclusive and democratic elections in Bangladesh, where the participation of the oldest and leading political party like Awami League is particularly important. In this context, India’s policy is to ensure the political freedom and security of Sheikh Hasina, so that she and her party can carry out their political activities without hindrance.

It is worth noting that immediately after the arrest warrant against Sheikh Hasina was issued by Dr. Yunus’s tribunal, the interim government formally wrote to India demanding her return. India directly ignored that letter, and did not even respond out of politeness.

Also, in April this year, during a 5-minute courtesy call in the hotel lobby during the BIMSTEC summit in Bangkok, when Dr. Yunus requested to impose restrictions on Sheikh Hasina’s political statements while she was in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it clear that India does not believe in curtailing anyone’s political rights.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is in India as a state guest, is regularly communicating virtually with leaders and activists of the country’s grassroots Awami League and its allied organizations.

Recently, several interviews of Sheikh Hasina have been published with great seriousness in leading media outlets around the world. Despite repeated requests from the interim government to India to control Sheikh Hasina’s statements in the media, there has been no response.