Opinion | Butterfly Effect: What Happens If India Hands Over Sheikh Hasina To Yunus Regime |
It is incredulous to believe that any Indian government at the Centre – least of all one led by Narendra Modi – would hand over former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to those running kangaroo courts in her Bangladesh.
India values loyalty and friendship. If in the face of extreme pressure from the United States and the European Union, India has not cracked on buying oil and arms from its old friend Russia, the pressure from an unelected regime in Bangladesh won’t make it even lift a finger.
India’s gradual but firm outing of its strong bonds with Israel in spite of heat from the Islamic world is just another example that values its allies a fair bit more than the US under Donald Trump, for instance, has demonstrated.
But for a moment consider what would happen if India were to extradite Hasina to........