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Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen cancelled his visit to India on Thursday hours before he was to land in the national capital to participate in Delhi Dialogue, an event hosted by the foreign ministry.
The move comes a day after Parliament cleared a law to grant citizenship to religious minorities from three Muslim-majority countries including Bangladesh on grounds that they were being persecuted.
“The visit has been put off for now… No fresh dates have been announced for visit,” a person familiar with the development said.
Dhaka hasn’t gone public with the reasons for the sudden change in the foreign minister’s plans. But there have been indications about the discomfort in Bangladesh over the past few days about the government’s justification to liberalise the citizenship law for religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
“What they are saying in regards to torture on Hindus is unwarranted as well as untrue,” the foreign minister told Dhaka Tribune on Tuesday. News agency ANI cited reports in Bangladesh media that quoted the foreign minister insisting that there were very few countries where communal harmony is as good as Bangladesh.
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