Anti-India Backlash Sweeps Bangladesh in Challenge for Modi
- Bangladeshis angered by New Delhi giving Hasina shelter
- India has growing list of security problems on its borders
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In the weeks since a student-led protest movement in Bangladesh swept out the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, discontent against her biggest ally in the region, India, has come bubbling to the surface.
On the streets of Dhaka, alongside triumphant protest slogans and colorful anti-Hasina murals, graffiti can be spotted mocking the ex-regime’s close ties to New Delhi. In Hasina’s burned-out family home, spray-painted messages cover the walls mocking the former prime minister for her closeness with India’s Narendra Modi.