Bangladesh’s Foreign Ministry summoned Indian High Commissioner Pranay Verma amid concerns over the security of Bangladeshi Missions in India.
The Foreign Ministry, in a statement, said Verma was conveyed Dhaka’s “grave concern over the regrettable incidents” outside the perimeter of the Bangladesh High Commission and residence in New Delhi on December 20, 2025, and the “acts of vandalism at” its Visa Centre in Siliguri on December 22 by “different extremist elements.” “Bangladesh also expressed deep concern over violent protests staged outside the premises of the different Diplomatic Missions of Bangladesh in India,” the statement said.
Holding saffron flags and shouting slogans against the lynching of a Hindu man in Bangladesh, hundreds of supporters of the VHP and the Bajrang Dal broke barricades and clashed with police near the fortified Bangladesh High Commission in Delhi on Tuesday (December 23, 2025).
A young man from West Bengal studying in Bangladesh and also tracing his family roots there said that until recently, it was easy to get accommodation in that country as an Indian but now it was the opposite. According to Supriyo Saha (name changed on request), the situation in Bangladesh is drastically different from what it was in mid-2024, when an uprising forced the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee the country, with mobs now replacing protesting citizens, and most mobsters having no idea what they were fighting.
