New Delhi: Bangladesh watchers believe the recent Twitter/ X diplomacy between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Begum Khaleda Zia is a good bid by New Delhi to normalise ties with its neighbour. Smruti S Pattanaik, Research Fellow (SS) at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) believes that Prime Minister Modi’s enquiry about the Bangladeshi leader’s health “would have gone down very well with the Bangladeshi public” and would have also helped end long-held rumours that India did not engage with the BNP.

“India has been engaging with the BNP for a long time. Former NSA Brajesh Mishra visited Dhaka to congratulate Begum Khaleda Zia on her electoral victory in 2001. She then visited India in 2012 where she received t

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