For India to faciliate electric power transit to BD from Nepal and Bhutan is a strategic imperative for it. It actually wants a stable and prosperous NE region that includes W Bengal, NE States, BD, Nepal and Bhutan.
Otherwise it will be a lose-lose for both parties as India's NE does not develop properly and becomes less stable, and both Nepal and Bhutan start to steer away from India and towards China.
This refusal would be seen by BD-Nepal-Bhutan as an unfriendly act and also exasperate the NE States and W Bengal. W Bengal is extremely reliant on a healthy BD economy and has a connection with BD due to shared ethnicity.
There is absolutely nothing to gain for India by not being part of this "energy grid" and everything to lose.
As for those countries you mentioned, they prospered as they were "propped up" by the US for strategic reasons.
BD has no "sugar daddy" like these have and so without India not only will its economic development be hampered but its leverage with both US and China will be limited.
Also, all these countries developed by having strong dictatorships who were solely focused on developing their economies and BD at most will have a semi-efficient democratic model from now on. We know that this is not the best model for 3rd world countries to develop.
We need to take the emotion out, accept BD's geopolitical situation with humility and BD can also become a middle income country just like India will probably do so in the 2030s.
Hey man, you're too heavily influenced by Western education!
Democracy is suitable for stability; Centralization is suitable for development!
Democracy or centralization is a dynamic concept. A so-called totalitarian state, at some point, is also democratic; A so-called democracy, at some point, is also centralized. It refers to the form of control of state power.
For example United States typical separation of powers, when a certain period of time, United States president or political group uses some special means to control these three powers at the same time, then, is United States still a democracy?
In the eighties of the last century, the honeymoon period between China and the United States. China has effectively embarked on democratic reforms, and the CCP is divided into factions. The result was the famous "June Fourth Incident" and the chaotic 90s that followed.
A team of ten people wants to go out on a trip together, and everyone has their own place to go. If a strong guy says we're going to climb a mountain, I'm going to beat you up if you don't go. The trip began right away. This is centralization. If someone says to climb a mountain, someone says to go to the grassland, someone says to go to the lake...... Everyone's opinion should be respected, this is democracy, but I don't know when this collective trip will begin.........
The same is true for the state. Party A should first develop trade; Party B should first develop infrastructure; The C party should first develop the military ........... As a result, nothing develops, and the country decays more and more.
Many of Europe's once developed countries have now stopped, and some have fallen into serious decay. A lot of their time and national resources are consumed internally.
On the other hand, those countries that are now developing rapidly, or some countries are developing rapidly, they all have one thing in common: the state power is highly concentrated. This is the case in India today, for example. The developed countries in Europe, in their own primitive stages of accumulation and development, also have a high degree of concentration of state power.
For some backward countries, as long as the state power is highly centralized, the economic backwardness will have little impact, at least the country is complete, at least there is no foreign force to interfere. Is your country developing? In which direction? The decision is yours. When other countries are required to invest, additional conditions can be agreed or vetoed.
I use machine-translated English, and a lot of the content can cause a lot of ambiguity..................