"We Want Friendly Relationship With India": Key Bangladesh Leader

While speaking to news agency ANI, Mr Alamgir said that the BNP wants a friendly relationship with India, and is seeking solutions to these issues to move forward.

Bangladesh is experiencing a volatile political situation (File)

DHAKA

Bangladesh is experiencing a volatile political situation (File)DHAKA

General Secretary of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Mirza Islam Alamgir, has expressed his party's desire to strengthen ties with India and emphasized that India is considered a neighbour and friend, but also called for a resolution of several key issues.

While speaking to news agency ANI, Mr Alamgir said that the BNP wants a friendly relationship with India, and is seeking solutions to these issues to move forward.

"It will be definitely strengthened further because we as a political party, always consider India to be our neighbour and friend. But we also invite India to come to a solution on certain issues," said Mr Alamgir

Further, Mr Alamgir has denied reports of communal atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh.

Mr Alamgir claimed that the issues are "totally political" and not communal or religious. He invited Indian media to visit Dhaka to assess the situation themselves.

"There is a sort of misunderstanding and very unfortunate propaganda being made by different media nationally and globally and especially from your country. The media is peddling that communal atrocities are going on in Bangladesh which is not true at all. This is not communal, not religious, this is totally political to some extent. I invite you, the media of India to come to Dhaka and see themselves, what has happened in Bangladesh," said Mr Alamgir while referring to the attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh.

Further, Mr Alamgir accused the government of perpetuating a "political conspiracy" against the interim government and the people.