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 reset a relationship New Delhi had built closely around Hasina. India says the two countries are now working through dialogue, with two invitations out to Rahman and Dhaka calling the relationship a work in progress - even as the Ganga water treaty nears its December 2026 expiry, Teesta stays unresolved and migrant repatriation rankles. Diesel, meanwhile, keeps arriving through the Friendship Pipeline.
- Bangladesh
- Tarique Rahman
- BNP
- Ganga Water Treaty
- Teesta
- Farakka
- Sheikh Hasina
- Muhammad Yunus
- BIMSTEC
- Friendship Pipeline
- Parbatipur
- Ganga treaty
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