Bangladesh’s Yunus Blames India For Strained Ties, Says Hosting Hasina Fuelling Tensions

India is hosting former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, who killed young people, said Prof. Mohammed Yunus, Chief Adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh, on Wednesday (September 24, 2025), on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s annual session in New York.

Speaking at an Asia Society conversation that was moderated by Asia Society’s President and former Foreign Minister of South Korea, Kyung Wha Kang, Prof. Yunus blamed “one country” for the lack of movement in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and said India did not like the student-people movement that has led to the current downturn in India-Bangladesh relation.

“We have problems with India right now because of what the students have done. They are hosting Hasina, the former Prime Minister, who created all these problems and killed the young people, and that creates a lot of tension between India and Bangladesh. There is a lot of fake news coming from the other side that these are Islamists and that they are Taliban,” said Prof. Yunus, referring to the political problem that has been continuing since former Prime Minister Hasina fled to India on August 5, 2024 after her government was overthrown in the student-people movement.