Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Tarique Rahman said Dhaka is keen to avoid repeating “past mistakes”.
Dhaka is seeking to build a new chapter in its bilateral relations with New Delhi, a top aide to Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has said.
Humaiun Kobir, adviser to the prime minister on foreign affairs, said that Dhaka is keen to avoid a repeat “old mistakes.”
“Our bilateral relations should focus on people-to-people relations so that they are not individual-oriented,” Kobir said after a meeting between Prime Minister Tarique Rahman and India’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma on Monday. “This is what we want and this is also what India wants. We want to ensure that this relationship avoids the mistakes of the past.”
The statement came a day before the planned visit of Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman in New Delhi. Kobir is reported to be accompanying him.
India is ready to rebuild relations with Bangladesh and “A forward-looking perspective,” Verma told Prime Minister Rahman.
“It is a new relationship between Bangladesh and India. There is no such thing as Hasina’s Awami League in Bangladesh now. Hasina is not there,” Kobir added.
Khalilur Rahman’s visit to India will be the first high-level visit from Bangladesh since Tarique Rahman was sworn in as prime minister this year.
Last year, the transitional government of Dhaka he urged New Delhi for “hand over” Hasina, who was deposed in the 2024 revolution and fled to India.
The former prime minister was widely seen as pro-India.
“We have to create a new space for a new relationship, because the Hasina-India relationship will no longer be possible,” Kobir said on Monday.
Khalilur Rahman is set to meet his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar along with National Security Adviser Ajit Doval. The talks are expected to focus on energy cooperation amid ongoing wars in the Middle East, sharing river water, and normalizing visa services, which were suspended following anti-government protests in Dhaka in 2025.
Relations between the two countries, which deteriorated after Hasina fled to India, have been improving since Tarique Rehman took power in Bangladesh in February.
India has also agreed give diesel to Bangladesh amid supply shortages.
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