Guwahati: Bangladesh on Sunday, December 21, 2025, firmly rejected India’s response to reports surrounding a protest outside the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi, raising sharp questions about how demonstrators were able to approach a highly secured diplomatic zone.
Speaking to the media hours after India dismissed Bangladeshi reports as “misleading propaganda,” Interim government foreign affairs adviser M. Touhid Hossain said Dhaka completely disagreed with New Delhi’s version of events. He argued that the incident was being portrayed as routine when, in reality, it raised serious security concerns.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) earlier reported that around 20 to 25 youths protested outside the Bangladesh High Commission on Saturday against the “horrendous killing” of Dipu Chandra Das, a 25-year-old Hindu man whom a mob lynched in Mymensingh on Thursday, December 18.
According to the MEA, the protesters raised slogans demanding justice for the victim and protection for minorities in Bangladesh, while insisting that no threat situation had emerged.
Rejecting this account, Hossain questioned how a group of 25 to 30 individuals—described in Bangladeshi media as belonging to a Hindu extremist organisation—managed to reach such a sensitive area. Under normal circumstances, he said, access to the diplomatic enclave should not have been possible without official permission.
Hossain called the Indian statement “oversimplified” and said authorities could not reduce the issue solely to the number of protesters present.
He claimed the demonstrators made statements beyond slogans condemning the killing and maintained that Bangladeshi media reports on the incident were largely accurate, not misleading as alleged by India.
Responding to queries about reported threats to the life of Bangladesh’s envoy in New Delhi, Hossain said he had no concrete evidence to substantiate such claims.
He added that Bangladesh felt compelled to respond publicly after India issued its press note, though both sides continue to communicate through established diplomatic channels. Dhaka, he said, still expects India to ensure adequate security for its diplomatic mission but would reassess its level of presence if the situation worsens.