Highlighting the importance of a workable relations with India, South Asian affairs expert Michael Kugelman has said the interim government in Bangladesh will need to be “very careful” about how it pursues its relations with New Delhi.
“I think that we need to be very clear. At least in my view, Bangladesh cannot afford to lose India. It needs that partnership for reasons of trade, border security and geopolitics,” Kugelman, Director of the South Asia Institute at Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. said in a webinar hosted by Right to Freedom - R2F.
He thinks it really needs to maintain “workable relations” with India, not necessarily “super warm” relations.
Kugelman also thinks India's own interests dictate a workable relationship with Bangladesh.