New Delhi has accused six Bangladeshi student leaders of inciting anti-India mobs and being involved in activities against India’s national interest. Their close relatives have been blacklisted by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs for not issuing visas. Verbal instructions in this regard have already been sent to the Indian High Commission in Dhaka. Several Indian media journalists working in Delhi confirmed this to The Mirror Asia.
In this list are the president of a section of the People’s Rights Council Nurul Haque Noor, the convener of Democratic Students Shakti, Akhtar Hossain, the newly appointed special assistant to the chief advisor Mahfuz Alam, the coordinator of anti-discrimination student movement Hasnat Abdullah, Sarjis Alam and Nusrat Tabassum.
Hasnat Abdullah’s statement on chicken neck and Nusrat Tabassum’s Facebook status on Seven Sisters have been taken into account in the visa ban.
Basically, the names of Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud, one of the coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement, being advisors to the government, were not mentioned there. This note was sent before Mahfuz Alam became part of the government. As a result, the chief adviser of the interim government. The Mirror Asia did not know whether the visa ban would apply to Mahfuz Alam after he became Special Assistant to Muhammad Yunus.