India to be represented by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla at Tarique Rahman’s oath ceremony in Dhaka on February 17

Thackeray also questioned the Bharatiya Janata Party, asking how alleged infiltrators entered India and travelled across multiple BJP-ruled states. He termed the situation a “national security failure” and accused the Union government of hiding its inability to prevent infiltration or deport illegal residents.

Bangladesh's prime minister-in-waiting Tarique Rahman on Saturday dedicated his landslide election win to those who "sacrificed for democracy", calling for unity after the first polls since a deadly 2024 uprising.

Tarique Rahman's Bangladesh Nationalist Party won a majority in Thursday’s election in the 350-member Parliament. An 11-member alliance led by the Jamaat-e-Islami party, the country’s largest Islamist party,