Why Modi’s First Foreign Trip After Covid Year Is To Bangladesh

One day before West Bengal goes for the first phase of its assembly election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Dhaka to take part in the birth centenary celebrations of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Modi may even open his speech with a few words in Bengali for the benefit of West Bengal, raising his opponents’ heckles to no end. The liberation of Bangladesh that took place in 1971 has had very little to do with elections in India. But then, the close links between Delhi, Dhaka and Kolkata cannot be wished away. Read More…