Staff Reporter:
Sohel Taj, a former state minister for home affairs, on Thursday published a post on facebook comparing India with the covetous Russian state, and blaming Bangladesh’s large neighbouring country for attempting to keep Bangladesh as Delhi’s “client state.”
On the facebook post, Sohel pointed out a number of similarities between Russia and India as well as between Russia-Ukraine ties and India-Bangladesh ties:
Russia wholeheartedly supported Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych, Ukraine’s president during 2010-14, for supporting Moscow’s interest in Ukraine. In the same way, India supported Sheikh Hasina’s government for supporting New Delhi’s interests in Bangladesh.
In this way, Russia had been trying to keep Ukraine as its “client state” until launching an invasion into the country in February 2014. India has also been trying to keep Bangladesh as its “client state.”
Yanukovych fled to Russia following a mass uprising against his rule in Ukraine, and in the same way Sheikh Hasina fled to her patronising country India following a popular upsurge.
Russia started a global smear campaign against Ukraine following the ouster of its puppet Yanukovych, and in the same way India also spread disinformation against Bangladesh after Hasina’s ouster.
For forcefully making illegal economic gains in Ukraine and pressuring Kyiv’s popular regime, Russia resorted to a number of human rights violations starting with the launch of a limited scale war against Ukraine in 2014, and later turning it into a full-scale invasion in 2022.
Last year, Russia intentionally damaged Ukraine’s Kakhovka Dam, even though Moscow pretended it was not deliberately involved, flooding large areas of the country. Russia also blocked electric supply by occupying a Ukrainian nuclear power plant
India followed the same example this year by first blocking electricity exports and then by opening floodgates of its dams to inundate swathes of Bangladeshi territories.
