Mani Shankar said – Sheikh Hasina should be allowed to stay in India: even if we have to remain her host for the rest of her life; Haseena has been in India for 6 months

Mani Shankar Iyer reached Kolkata on Saturday. (file)

Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Saturday said that former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina should be allowed to stay in India as long as she wants.

He said- I hope we will never disagree that Sheikh Hasina has done a lot of good for us. I am happy that he was granted asylum. I think we should be Hasina’s host for as long as she wants, even if it’s for life.

He said that I am happy that Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri had visited Dhaka last month and discussed with the officials there. Actually, Iyer had reached the 16th APJ Kolkata Literary Festival organized in Kolkata. It was here that he said this.

News of the attack is being exaggerated

Iyer said- It is true that minority Hindus are being attacked in Bangladesh, but this is mostly happening because they are supporters of Hasina. The reports of attacks on Hindus are true, but are being exaggerated. Because many conflicts occur to resolve political differences.

He said that Pakistan is a country which spreads terrorism, but it itself is a victim of terrorism. Pakistan thought that they could bring Taliban to power in Afghanistan, but today the biggest threat to them is Taliban in Afghanistan.

He said that the incident of partition made it a separate country. We have the courage to carry out surgical strikes, but the Modi government does not have the courage to sit and talk with them.

Iyer said that there is more difference between me as a Tamil and my wife as a Punjabi than between him and a Pakistani Punjabi.

Possible to talk trade with military government

Iyer said that the biggest achievement of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was that India talked to Pakistan on a secret channel. General Musharraf had called this a four-point agreement on Kashmir.

Aiyar said Manmohan Singh had also shown that it was possible to talk trade with a military government. It is suicidal for us to keep Pakistan hanging around our neck. We should talk to them just like Manmohan Singh did on the issue of Kashmir.

Sheikh Hasina is in India from 5 August 2024 There was a coup in Bangladesh on 5 August 2024. After this Sheikh Hasina fled from there and took refuge in India. He has been here ever since. The Yunus government formed after the coup in Bangladesh has registered more than 225 cases against Hasina, ranging from murder, kidnapping to treason.

Yunus government of Bangladesh has canceled the passports of 97 people including Hasina. According to Bangladesh news agency BSS, out of these, 22 passports are of people who were forcibly disappeared, while passports of 75 people, including Sheikh Hasina, were canceled due to their involvement in the murders that took place in July. Read the full news…