Highly Deplorable: Bangladesh lodges protest against Amit Shah's 'infiltrators' remarks

Calling it "highly deplorable", the Bangladesh government on Sep 24 lodged a protest against Union Home Minister Amit Shah's recent remarks in Jharkhand that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would hang every Bangladeshi infiltrator upside down if the party were elected to power in the state.

Bangladesh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed the protest note to India's Deputy High Commissioner in Dhaka, expressing its "serious reservations, deep hurt, and extreme displeasure."

During his visit to Jharkhand last week, Amit Shah said the BJP "will hang every Bangladeshi infiltrator upside down to give them a lesson, if people elected the party to power in Jharkhand.”

Expressing its displeasure over recent remarks, the Bangladesh government urged New Delhi to caution its political leaders against making such "objectionable and unacceptable" statements.

"The Ministry conveyed its serious reservation, deep sense of hurt, and extreme displeasure and called upon the Government of India to advise the political leaders to refrain from making such objectionable and unacceptable remarks," the protest note said.

"The ministry also emphasized that such remarks, coming from responsible positions against the nationals of a neighboring country, undermine the spirit of mutual respect and understanding between two friendly countries," it added.