{"id":49361,"date":"2026-04-27T15:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=49361"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:06:17","slug":"india-names-bjp-member-as-envoy-to-bangladesh-as-ties-thaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=49361","title":{"rendered":"India names BJP member as envoy to Bangladesh as ties thaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>India named veteran politician Dinesh Trivedi as its next high commissioner to Bangladesh on Monday, in a \u200brare appointment of a non\u2013foreign service officer as New Delhi \u200cseeks to reset ties with its eastern neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>Ties between the countries soured after a popular uprising forced Bangladesh\u2019s long\u2011serving prime minister Sheikh Hasina to \u200bflee to New Delhi in 2024, where she remains. \u200bTrivedi\u2019s appointment highlights India\u2019s push to rebuild trust with \u2060Bangladesh as it faces stiff competition from China for influence and \u200bbusiness.<\/p>\n<p>Trivedi, 75, a former railways and health minister, joined Prime Minister \u200bNarendra Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party in 2021 from a regional party in West Bengal, a border state that plays a key role in India\u2019s ties \u200bwith Bangladesh and where Modi has been seeking to expand \u200bhis party\u2019s influence in ongoing local elections.<\/p>\n<p>Dinesh Trivedi has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh: MEA pic.twitter.com\/zSlGHwYJPY<br \/>\n\u2014 ANI (@ANI) April 27, 2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is expected to take up the assignment \u200cshortly,\u201d \u2060India\u2019s Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement about Trivedi.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between the two countries began improving only after an election in February brought Tarique Rahman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party \u200bto power, replacing \u200ban interim government \u2060that had veered strongly towards China.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh was part of India in the colonial era and became \u200bEast Pakistan at the end of British rule \u200bin 1947. \u2060New Delhi intervened and helped Bangladesh become a separate country from Pakistan in 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh&#8217;s foreign minister visited Delhi this month seeking increased fuel and fertiliser supplies, closer \u2060energy \u200bcooperation and eased travel restrictions, but \u200bone of the biggest sticking points remains India\u2019s refusal so far to extradite Hasina.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India named veteran politician Dinesh Trivedi as its next high commissioner to Bangladesh on Monday, in a \u200brare appointment of a non\u2013foreign service officer as New Delhi \u200cseeks to reset ties with its eastern neighbour. Ties between the countries soured after a popular uprising forced Bangladesh\u2019s long\u2011serving prime minister Sheikh Hasina to \u200bflee to New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}