'Teach them lesson': Assam CM slams B'desh leaders; remarks on NE states in focus

NEW DELHI: Assam main curate Himanta Biswa Sarma connected Tuesday warned that India would not stay soundless and thatch a "lesson" if politicians successful Bangladesh continued to marque remarks astir India's northeastern region.His comments came a time aft Hasnat Abdullah, a elder person of the recently formed National Citizen Party, said Dhaka should “isolate” India’s northeastern states and enactment separatist elements successful the portion if New Delhi attempted to “destabilise” the neighbouring country.“For the past 1 year, statements person been coming repeatedly from that state (Bangladesh) that the states of northeast India should beryllium separated and made a portion of Bangladesh.

We are a precise large country, a atomic federation and the world’s fourth-largest economy. How tin Bangladesh adjacent deliberation astir it?” Sarma told reporters, according to PTI.“This mindset should not beryllium encouraged, and Bangladesh should not beryllium helped overmuch successful immoderate way. We should thatch them a acquisition that if they proceed to behave successful this way. We volition not stay silent,” the BJP person added.On Monday, Abdullah, a cardinal person of the student-led protests that brought down Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina authorities successful August past year, claimed that India’s northeastern states were geographically “vulnerable” arsenic they beryllium connected the constrictive Siliguri Corridor—also known arsenic the “Chicken’s Neck”—for connectivity with the remainder of the country.

Hasina has been surviving successful Delhi since fleeing Dhaka, and ties betwixt the 2 neighbours person been astatine an all-time debased since her ouster. Last month, an International Crimes Tribunal recovered her blameworthy and sentenced her to decease for “crimes against humanity” during the protests. Hasina rejected the verdict, describing it arsenic “politically motivated.”Dhaka has repeatedly sought the erstwhile premier minister’s extradition, a petition New Delhi has said is “being examined.”Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, whose caretaker medication has been governing Bangladesh since the autumn of Hasina’s government, has besides repeatedly commented connected India’s northeastern region, commonly known arsenic the “Seven Sisters” aft the 7 states that represent it.