Hindutvising foreign policy

As if it were not bad enough that India's domestic polity has been poisoned by communalism too, is being given a communal twist.

This is most evident in relation to Bangladesh. The enormous gains of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War are being frittered away in a vengeful attack by the Narendra Modi government and its 'godi' media, in the name of protecting the Hindu minority, on the consequences of the Monsoon Revolution that overthrew our much-favoured Sheikh Hasina as prime minister of Bangladesh. In view of continuing atrocities against India's Muslims, such chutzpah quite takes one's breath away.

We did not bring Hasina to power in Dhaka. It was the people of Bangladesh who elected her in 1996 and again in 2009.

It is they who overthrew her on August 5, 2024. Our government refuses to accept the self-evident truth that Hasina had compromised her moral right to the premiership by rigging the elections of 2014 and 2019 and forfeited it completely by the time the people's frustration at this perversion of democracy spilled on to the streets.