A municipal employee cleans a street close to the chairman’s workplace of the Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration (BNP) a day after the nationwide Parliamentary election in Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 13, 2026.
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Stopping “border killings”, beginning negotiations for renewal of the Ganga waters settlement, and growing the variety of medical visas are a number of the precedence areas for Bangladesh’s incoming authorities, sources within the Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration instructed The Hindu on Friday (February 13, 2026).
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The BNP, led by its chairman Tarique Rahman, is about to return to energy in Dhaka after twenty years, following a landslide victory within the February 12 Parliamentary election, profitable an absolute majority of seats.
Giving an perception into the record of deliverables, BNP’s sources stated India ought to urgently take care of the difficulty of Sheikh Hasina’s presence on Indian soil, as Ms. Hasina has been making feedback concerning the developments in her nation.
‘Inflames passions’
“Out of all points, it’s the border killings by the Border Safety Drive of India that create nice issue for the Authorities of Bangladesh. Experiences of killings within the bordering areas instantly inflame ardour, particularly in college campuses the place protests get away, escalating the scenario,” stated a supply who’s engaged on the neighbourhood tasks of the BNP.
The BNP member stated that India and Bangladesh have a settled border and it is senseless to shoot to kill somebody. “If somebody is suspected of smuggling, then they need to be arrested and never fired upon,” the supply argued, searching for a extra humane method to the matter.
He additional stated that India ought to look into the difficulty of the continued presence of former Prime Minister Ms. Hasina and her high aides on Indian soil, because the Awami League chief’s feedback will pose a problem to the normalisation of ties and indicated that these points will probably be among the many first gadgets that might be mentioned by the incoming authorities.
‘Treaty renewal is due’
The opposite massive subject that must be prioritised, The Hindu was instructed it’s the renewal of the Ganga Waters Treaty that must be renewed earlier than December 2026. Indian diplomatic sources had flagged that the technical groups that have been supposed to fulfill to iron out the main points of the renewal settlement within the two years didn’t meet, although the matter featured through the July 2024 go to of Ms. Hasina when she was Prime Minister. Bangladesh can even elevate the necessity to conclude this treaty in a “honest” method, the supply stated.
He additional stated the variety of medical visas which are issued by India are insufficient and that India should calm down medical visas, as it’s a nice people-to-people connector. “We’re being pushed to go to China looking for medical therapy. If pushed by denial of a medical visa, we’ll discover an alternate, as in right now’s world an alternate will current itself routinely, however our cultural commonalities make medical therapy in India a extra comfy course of,” stated the supply, urging India to boost people-to-people diplomacy.
Printed – February 13, 2026 10:52 pm IST