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Bangladesh Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday said that Sheikh Hasina making political remarks on Bangladesh in India is an "unfriendly gesture", adding that Hasina should remain silent and refrain from making political remarks until she's in India.

"Sheikh Hasina making political remarks on Bangladesh in India is an "unfriendly gesture". If India wants to keep Hasina until Bangladesh wants her back, the condition would be she has to keep quiet," Yunus told PTI.

Yunus, who was appointed the country's Chief Advisor after Hasina's ouster, in an interview with PTI, stressed that while Bangladesh values strong ties with India, New Delhi must move "beyond the narrative that portrays every other political party except Awami League as Islamist and that the country will turn into Afghanistan without Sheikh Hasina."

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Delhi must move "beyond the narrative that portrays every other political party except Awami League as Islamist and that the country will turn into Afghanistan without Sheikh Hasina."

"No one is comfortable with her stance there in India because we want her back to try her. She is there in India and at times she is talking, which is problematic. Had she been quiet, we would have forgotten it; people would have also forgotten it as she would have been in her own world. But sitting in India, she is speaking and giving instructions. No one likes it," he said.

His remark came apparently in the wake of the August 13 remark of Hasina Sheikh where she demanded "justice", saying those involved in recent "terror acts", killings and vandalism must be investigated, identified and punished.

"It is not good for us or for India. There is discomfort regarding it," he told PTI.

Responding to if Bangladesh has communicated its stance to India, Yunus said it has been conveyed verbally and quite firmly that she should keep quiet.

"Everyone understands it. We have said quite firmly that she should keep quiet. This is an unfriendly gesture towards us; she has been given shelter there and she is campaigning from there. It is not that she has gone there on a normal course. She has fled following a people's uprising and public anger," he said.

Yunus added that the interim government is committed to ensuring justice for the people of Bangladesh against the atrocities, and justice requires that she be brought back to the country.

"Yes, she has to be brought back or else the people of Bangladesh won't be at peace. The kind of atrocities she has committed, she has to be tried in front of everyone here," he emphasised.

(With inputs from PTI)