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NEW DELHI: BJP person and erstwhile Union curate Dinesh Trivedi is apt to beryllium appointed India’s adjacent High Commissioner to Bangladesh, with his “extensive experience” cited arsenic a cardinal factor, PTI reported quoting sources.If confirmed, Trivedi, who hails from West Bengal, which shares a borderline with Bangladesh, would beryllium a uncommon governmental appointee to an ambassadorial post.Pranay Verma, who had been serving arsenic India’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh, was connected Friday appointed arsenic the adjacent Ambassador to Belgium and the European Union. Verma, a 1994-batch diplomat, took complaint arsenic High Commissioner successful Dhaka successful September 2022.According to reports, New Delhi has been considering appointing a governmental fig to the cardinal diplomatic station successful Dhaka amid efforts to reset bilateral ties pursuing the enactment of a caller authorities led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party main Tarique Rahman successful February.India–Bangladesh relations had witnessed a important downturn nether the interim authorities headed by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, which assumed complaint aft the illness of the Sheikh Hasina authorities successful student-led protests successful August 2024.Trivedi, 75, served arsenic Railway Minister and Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare during the Congress-led UPA authorities arsenic a subordinate of the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
He was aboriginal elected to the Rajya Sabha from West Bengal and besides served arsenic a Lok Sabha MP from Barrackpore. He discontinue the TMC successful February 2021 and joined the BJP, which has been the country's ruling enactment since May 2014.Although determination has been nary ceremonial announcement, BJP IT compartment caput and West Bengal co-incharge, Amit Malviya, posted a congratulatory connection for Trivedi connected societal media.“Congratulations to Shri Dinesh Trivedi, elder BJP leader, erstwhile Union Minister and Barrackpore MP, for being appointed arsenic India’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh,” Malviya wrote connected X.
