Bangladesh Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman is expected to visit India in the first week of April, diplomatic sources have confirmed. The visit will be the first high-level outreach from Bangladesh since its Prime Minister Tarique Rahman came to power after leading the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to a landslide victory in the February 12 election. The visit is expected to restart bilateral ties that had turned cold during the 15-month-long tenure of the interim government.
Mr. Khalilur Rahman is expected to hold bilateral meetings in New Delhi and then proceed to Mauritius where he will attend the Indian Ocean Conference being organised by the Mauritius government. The visit is likely to be dominated by Bangladesh’s energy scenario that has become serious because of the ongoing war in West Asia and the resultant crisis in the global energy market.
India has supplied a consignment of high-speed diesel to Bangladesh on March 10, with sources indicating that Bangladesh has an urgent requirement for diesel and other petroleum products, as the country has been rationing fuel to deal with the crisis.
The two sides are also expected to revive the issue of renewing the Ganga Waters Treaty, which will turn 30 in December this year. Mr. Khalilur Rahman was the National Security Adviser of the interim government led by Prof. Mohammed Yunus and had visited India in November 2025 when he had met NSA Ajit Doval in the national capital.
