why the relation between India & Bangladesh is become so conflicted?

Answer 1

Good question indeed. We in Bangladesh used to think that why India and Pakistan are at loggerhead for so many years (about 60 years now) and ruining their prospect to develop their countries, with the money for the military and bombs etc, in all sphere of life. I have been to Pakistan (lived 19 years of my early life, 1954 to 1973), I am in Bangladesh for most of my adult life from 1973 and I have visited India thrice, starting from 1991.

In my first trip to India, while travelling from Kolkata to New Delhi by Rajdhani Express, I saw some Bangladeshis in our compartment and we were chatting with our co-passengers from Kolkata, the way we used to chat with our own fellows back home. There were a few Pakistani passengers who were all cuddled up within themselves and they were feeling like fish out of water. This is in the year July-1991 (Ershad was toppled in BD 1n 1990, Khaleda of BD Nationalist Party- BNP became PM; and Iraq attacked Kuwait) and I could very well understand the situation what the Pakistani passenger were undergoing as I knew the psychological gaps between people of Pakistan and India, as against the more-or-less friendly ties between Bangladesh and India.

The second time visit was in July-1999 (Pakistan attacked Kargil; Hasina in power as PM), it was also okay with us as visitor but we could see the starting of strained relationship among Government, but not among the people as such. Thereafter, I took my family to visit Kolkata in January-2001 (Hasina’s last few months in power as PM and BD became very submissive towards India), we found people of Kolkata friendly and optimistic about Bangladesh. However, at the end of Hasina’s rule there were border incidents and once BSF intruded inside BD border, 17 BSF troops were killed by BDR inside BD territory and their bodies were handed over to India through diplomatic channel. There were reports that the dead bodies were mutilated, which BD government of Sk. Hasina denied vehemently. Thanks God that Sk. Hasina of Awami League (AL) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh at that time, so India relented. We got the shock of our life that foreign troops can infiltrate inside your territory and then get killed and the bodies were rotting in the sun and in swamp like fields. The villagers with the help of BDR jawans brought the bodies from marshland to dry place using rudimentary processes which were disgusting to our eyes and taste too. India reacted and was jumping up & down to teach a lesson to BD for its audacity!

Moreover, there were first-ever bombing incidents in public meetings and places starting from Jessore, Kushtia and gradually Narayangonj and all over BD during AL rule of Sk. Hasina as PM. None of the cases were pursued with judicial investigation and the reports were also not made public. These incidences were later found to be linked with Indian manufactured ammunitions and people trained in India.

Thereafter, in September 2001 general election Hasina’s AL was defeated and BNP with Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) formed coalition government in BD. The rage in New Delhi was in full throttle due to loss of Hasina. The Indian government in collusion with AL first started blaming the Government of Bangladesh as having link with Al-Qaeda and their point-person Hasina was trumpeting all over the world that BD has become another Taliban state etc. India gave overt and covert support and backing to Hasina and her party to malign BNP/JI govt. Whole country saw that Hasina was accorded Head of State’s honor (though she was leader of the opposition) and Khaleda was constantly being ‘neglected’ by New Delhi.

These are a few incidents that along with many smaller ones are embedded in the mind of people of Bangladesh that there is clear shift in policy of India towards Bangladesh. Now Bangladesh has become Pakistan as far as Indian propaganda machineries are concerned. We had a lot of turmoil here at the end of Khaleda’s government last year and we saw how the Indian backed political parties and media (both electronic and print) were out to show to the world that BD is ungovernable and this country is going to the dogs. Had India really been ‘neutral’ and not backing the destructive forces inside BD then one could have blamed the government and people of Bangladesh for the strained relationship.

I want to end here now, as the reply became a bit longer and I am really worried that how the Y!A Indian Users would jump on me instead of trying to understand why a country’s majority people are behaving the way they are behaving? I personally believe that it is futile for us to have any strained relationship with India for their support in our freedom struggle and also for the fact that India is becoming regional super-power along with China and we can not afford to pick fight with giants. In a way, had the AL been headed by sane leaders then this party could have brought India and Bangladesh very closer which chemistry BNP led by Khaleda does not possess.

Congratulations on the 58TH Republic day of India today on 26-1-2007!!!

Answer 2

This goes back to the war in 1971 in which India helped Bangladesh gain Independence from Pakistan.

Answer 3

India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Have no time for each other, they suffer with the same problems as a lot of countries Religious racial and geographical. Its a shame that India didn't look at their own problems instead of making loud noise's about a stupid little show like Big Brother, and Gordon Brown should have turned around and told them to put their own house in order, before criticising us, instead he scurried away like a naughty dog !

Answer 4

I don't know much about it tbh.

However I always thought they were closely bonded in many ways.

If there is any rooms for conflict (not military / but disagreements) its probably India's surging powerhouse growth... with many of India's population getting more Western type mindset for jobs/research/education..... compared with the crushing poverty in Bangladesh.

Answer 5

(i) Kashmir and Sir Creek interior the Rann of Kachchh (Gujarat/ Sind). (ii) faith. (iii) Bangladesh. (ix) in all likelihood Ethiopia and Egypt. per chance Liberia also. (x) Intelligentsia. (xii) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (xiii) Civil disobedience & Non-cooperation (xvi) The British East India organization, a chartered Joint inventory organization which fought for monopoly on Indian products. (xvii) Racialism.

Answer 6

Essentially a question of conflicting interests. I can see the realist perspective operating here especially in the case of transparent borders and water disputes plaguing the countries.

Answer 7

Probably because Bangladesh is landlocked within Indian territory, so it feels psychologically...repressed or something. Add that to their religious differences, and well...

Answer 8

it's only due to dirty politics. otherwise people of both countries are join by pious soul.