Overview

• Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee received Bangladesh High Commissioner M. Riaz Hamidullah at Nabanna for their first official discussion since 2016.
• High Commissioner Hamidullah described the vandalism of Sirajganj’s Kachari House as a local law-and-order incident without political or religious motives.
• Banerjee had earlier written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging diplomatic engagement to investigate the Tagore heritage site attack.
• The envoy proposed a joint geo-biodiversity survey to explore ecological and environmental commonalities between West Bengal and Bangladesh.
• BJP leaders alleged the meeting aimed to resist deportation policies, a claim Trinamool Congress figures rejected as baseless.