India-Bangladesh After the 2024 Upheaval

Sheikh Hasina's Awami League government fell in August 2024, and for nearly 18 months an interim administration under Muhammad Yunus ran Bangladesh. That phase closed on 17 February 2026, when Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief Tarique Rahman was sworn in as Prime Minister after his party swept the parliamentary polls. The turnover resets a relationship New Delhi had built closely around Hasina. India has signalled it will work with the new government, yet contentious files have reopened at once: the Ganga water treaty lapses in December 2026, Dhaka is again pressing on Teesta, and the repatriation of illegal migrants plus sharp cross-border rhetoric have added friction. This card tracks where ties stand in mid-2026.