India on Friday rejected allegations from Dhaka that New Delhi was linked to recent unrest in Bangladesh’s Khagrachhari district, and instead blamed the Bangladeshi interim government for failing to uphold law and order in the country.

MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the charges were “false and baseless” and accused Dhaka of routinely shifting blame to external factors rather than addressing its own internal failures.

“The interim government of Bangladesh, as you are aware and we’ve spoken about it on several occasions, is unable to maintain law and order in the country, and has this habit of routinely trying to shift the blame elsewhere,” Jaiswal said at the weekly briefing.

He called on Dhaka to “introspect” and conduct serious investigations into the actions of local extremists

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