Bangladesh PM fights back against Opposition BNP’s "India Out" campaign
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is fighting back against the Opposition BNP’s India-Out campaign and has advised the BNP leaders and their families to first ban India made products in their homes before launching the malicious campaign.
Last week Hasina launched an attack on BNP’s “India-Out” campaign on the occasion of the country’s Independence Day on March 26 advising the leaders of the Opposition party to first shun India made products at home and highlighted that even most kitchen items in Bangladesh are bought from India.
“How many Indian saris do their wives have?” Hasina asked in a reference to BNP leaders at an event in Dhaka organised on the occasion of the country’s Independence Day observed on March 26.
“When they burn their Indian wives’ saris in front of their party office, only then will it be proven that they are truly committed to boycotting Indian products,” she said, resulting in peals of laughter at a ruling party office in Dhaka. Ever since Hasina returned to power in 2009 India and Bangladesh partnership has expanded across sectors including cross-border infra and energy initiatives.
The BNP is understood to have taken a cue from Maldives ruling party that launched the “India-Out” campaign to win Presidential polls last year, experts on Bangladesh affairs told ET. Maldives President Md Muizzu’s “India Out” campaign was allegedly backed by China.
BNP’s social media army, most of which operates from Western capitals, has been trying to create a narrative that the Parliamentary
