Amid a deteriorating security situation and the targeted hate and radical speeches towards India and its territorial sovereignty, the Indian Visa Application Centre in Dhaka has been closed. The move came hours after India summoned Bangladesh's High Commissioner in New Delhi, Muhammad Riaz Hamidullah, to issue a formal diplomatic protest over recent threats to the Indian High Commission in Dhaka and inflammatory anti-India statements from Bangladeshi political leaders.
The Indian Visa Application Centre located at Jamuna Future Park in Dhaka, the capital’s main integrated centre for Indian visa services, shut operations at 2 pm citing the prevailing security situation. In a statement, the IVAC said all applicants who had appointments scheduled for Wednesday would be rescheduled for a later date. India has 16 visa application centres spread across Bangladesh. All the IVACs collectively process 22 lakh visa applications in a year. The State Bank of India is the only authorised agency for receiving visa applications in Bangladesh.
Over the last few days, anti-India elements have been making statements about India's northeast and causing trouble as the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus pushes for closer ties with Pakistan at the cost of the historic ties with India. Anti-India elements have been using the attack on student leader Sharif Osman Hadi to target India.
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