Facts behind the unprecedented anti-Modi movement in Bangladesh
By Md. Kamruzzaman
The writer Kamruzzaman is an Asia-based prize-winning freelance journalist who mainly writes on diplomacy, refugee, human rights, and climate change. His articles have been frequently published by Turkish Anadolu Agency, South Asian Monitor, and other media outlets including Aljazeera as the content of the Anadolu Agency
It was unpredictable that Bangladeshi people would organize such an unprecedented movement against Indian Premier Narendra Modi when he visited Bangladesh to join the country’s golden jubilee of independence and birth centenary of its founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The two occasions Modi was invited for were not at all controversial; rather both events were very much people-oriented at which four South Asian leaders including Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka attended peacefully one after another amid huge festivity and utmost cordiality. Even dozens of deals of mutu