Wrong perception due to Jamatis long held hate for Mujibur and calling him as Indian agent. So, that was carried forward to his daughter Hasina. It is not Indian foreign policy failure.
Again, ask the Bangladeshis.
Ask why, after seeking temporary refuge in India, it was felt necessary for the chief spook to meet her at the air force base. What does that look like to you, other than incompetent ineptitude?
The most important aspect of being a stooge is having military dependency. It is a clear cut sign. As I said before, many were just blinded by their hate & false belief that Mujibur was Indian agent and they would never accept any other version.
Also finance, and moral support. SHW felt that she could call on India to provide military support, and there are large numbers of Bangladeshis who believe that this was available, if the BA had only consented.
If this view of Mujib's role prevailed in B'desh, what did the Indian Foreign Minister do about it?
Moreover, you seem to allude to BJP govt's failure whereas Hasina was brought into power in 2008 when BJP was not in power.
Your ignorance is showing.
Even SHW's bitterest opponents do not say that she cooked every election result, only the recent ones.
Do your homework, and ask the Bangladeshis.
India was giving huge loans, free trade on cotton, vegetable shipments to BD and allowing duty free imports of textile and other goods from BD. India could instead channel the funds into Indian textile and industries by refusing to export raw cotton & forcing export of cotton yarn (yarn is compact & needs less transport cost while also adding value & generating jobs). BD has no other suppliers who can supply cheaper than India even with restrictions and hence India would lose nothing but even could replace Bangladeshi textile in international trade.
Sure, from this analysis, it immediately becomes clear why we have dunderheads in the External Affairs Ministry. Is there any doubt that our good friends from the north would step in, meet all the requirements mentioned above, and take permission to position a division at the Siliguri Gap?
Asking for return favour by connecting railways is not really sign of incompetence. This would also develop BD railways as India would be funding the laying of tracks which can be used for internal transportation too. The only reason to oppose it is political/military.
You said so, not I. The incompetence and the ineptitude did not lie at the transactional level, but at a higher, strategic and geo-political level, where we thought we could browbeat Bangladesh, or bribe her, or seduce her and get our objectives. It doesn't work that way.
That is a poor argument. Why was BDR not fired? Why was salary not withheld and supplies cut off? Was any effort made regarding that? These kind of lame excuses don't work on me. It was simply BD intelligence/army doing that and giving excuses
Are you completely ignorant?
Look up the incidents relating to the BDR, and assess the tight-rope that both the Army and the government were walking, with relation to the BDR.
Where do people like you float up and pass judgement on every single issue about which you know nothing? Or less than nothing?
Has Indian military technology remained same as it was in 2008? Or has India obtained new technology like BVRAAM, Su30 manufacturing, Akash SAM, QRSAM, Brahmos indigenisation, ATGMs, new indigenous helicopters, new indigenous artillery etc?
How, O Manstein Reborn, would these have helped against Bangladesh? Do you even know what the topography is, and what sort of battles would be fought?
