Trivedi arrives in Bangladesh

Newly appointed Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi arrived in Dhaka by road yesterday.

“He entered Bangladesh through the Petrapole-Benapole border,” a diplomatic source in Dhaka told The Daily Star.

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Trivedi succeeds Pranay Kumar Verma, who served as Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh for four years until May this year.

Trivedi’s appointment is an unusual one for India’s diplomatic service. He is a former railways minister of India and a former Trinamool Congress leader who later joined the BJP. He is fluent in Bangla and has extensive knowledge of West Bengal.

Trivedi takes charge at the Indian High Commission in Dhaka at a time when Bangladesh and India are working to improve relations strained in the aftermath of the July uprising, which led to the fall of the Awami League government in 2024.