To those who say India is now facing an 1975-77 Emergency-like situation: Under which Emergency was 95% of the currency demonetized with just three hours’ notice? Under which Emergency was Article 370 revoked and Kashmir turned into an open-air prison for more than two years? Under which Emergency did 4.7 million people die during a pandemic amid shortages of oxygen and medicines? Under which Emergency were hundreds of Muslims lynched and thousands of their homes and mosques bulldozed? Under which Emergency did thousands of farmers protest outside Delhi for 16 months, with 700 losing their lives? And under which Emergency were 130 million voters removed from the electoral rolls?
Release Detained Youth Protesters in India: Asif Mahmud
It is deeply disappointing that the Indian government has chosen to suppress and demean the voices of young people fighting for transparency and accountability.
I strongly condemn the arrests of young protesters ahead of the demonstration, including youth icon @dhruv_rathee and Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder @abhijeet_dipke .
Reports also suggest that the Indian government has taken several measures to obstruct the protest, including cancelling hundreds of train schedules, suspending buses, blocking internet access, and barricading protest areas. Such actions raise serious concerns about the state of democratic freedoms and the right to peaceful assembly.
I urge the Indian government to immediately release all detainees and respect the fundamental rights of young people to assemble and protest peacefully.
I also call upon young people around the world to stand in solidarity with the youth of India at this critical moment, as they face government crackdowns while fighting for the just cause of transparency and accountability.
#JantarMantar #cjpprotest #DelhiProtest #DelhiProtestToday
STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE YOUTH OF INDIA
Dhaka, Bangladesh | 10 October 2026
To the youth and democratic forces of India,
We stand in firm solidarity with the young people of India demanding electoral accountability and defending their democratic rights. Recent detentions of peaceful protesters, organizers, and journalists in New Delhi, alongside internet suspensions and restrictions at Jantar Mantar, directly threaten fundamental freedoms. Concerns regarding electoral integrity and institutional independence require transparent answers, not barricades and censorship.
This struggle is not yours alone. From Dhaka, we stand with you as friends bound by a common demand for accountable power, democratic institutions, and human dignity.
We know this struggle intimately, because we have lived it. In July 2024, our student led movement against recruitment quotas transformed into a nationwide uprising against 15 years of authoritarian rule. The state responded with live ammunition. The United Nations later estimated that as many as 1,400 people were killed during the uprising and its suppression. We deeply remember and honor the solidarity shown by Indian students, writers, and independent voices during our uprising.
We recognize India's rich traditions of democratic resistance. The women of Shaheen Bagh defended equal citizenship through a Delhi winter, while generations of students at JNU and Jadavpur University have sustained organised dissent. These remain invaluable democratic inheritances. Today, we once again see the courage of young Indian women on the streets. In Bangladesh, women were also at the forefront of the July Revolution; their courage and sacrifices helped secure our victory.
Hindutva majoritarianism, fascism, and every form of religious supremacy must not define the future of South Asia. We reject authoritarianism, communal hatred, and political intolerance in India just as we reject them in Bangladesh. Our shared future must rest on communal harmony and social justice, irrespective of religion, caste, gender, or class. No society is truly democratic while minorities live in fear, dissent is criminalized, and citizenship is conditional on identity.
We call upon Indian authorities to respect the right to peaceful assembly, disclose the whereabouts and legal grounds for detaining protest organizers, immediately release those held for exercising their rights, and ensure journalists can report without intimidation or equipment seizure.
Today, many young leaders have been unjustly detained. Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid continue to be kept behind bars for years without trial. We regard all of India's young protesters and prisoners of conscience as comrades. Their courage inspires young people across South Asia.
Our struggles are interconnected, extending to unresolved issues of border killings, water sharing, environmental protection, and national sovereignty. We seek a South Asia where nations treat each other as equals, governments remain accountable, and sovereignty is never an excuse for domination.
To the democratic people of India: from Dhaka, and from the unfinished democratic aspirations of our July generation, we stand with you. Stand firm, protect one another, reject communal hatred, and refuse to surrender the future of South Asia to fascism and division.
Inqilab Zindabad.
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❝Bangladesh will make no compromises if Makkah and Madinah come under attack. We are ready to deploy troops to Saudi Arabia if requested. Bangladesh Army stands ready to help maintain stability across the Middle East.❞
— Humayun Kabir, State Minister for Foreign Affairs 🇧🇩
Dear Prime Minister Ambani,
Please accept my humble apologies for not realizing that you are the real boss of India.
Naturally, you would prefer to maintain your monopolistic exploitation of the great people of India, but would you nonetheless consider allowing Starlink to compete?
There are many areas of India, as there are in all countries, with no Internet access, which denies children the opportunity for education and for small businesses the opportunity to sell their goods to a global market. Starlink would change their lives for the better.
Thank you 🙏
Dear Prime Minister Ambani,
Please accept my humble apologies for not realizing that you are the real boss of India.
Naturally, you would prefer to maintain your monopolistic exploitation of the great people of India, but would you nonetheless consider allowing Starlink to compete?
There are many areas of India, as there are in all countries, with no Internet access, which denies children the opportunity for education and for small businesses the opportunity to sell their goods to a global market. Starlink would change their lives for the better.
Thank you 🙏
Dear Prime Minister Ambani,
Please accept my humble apologies for not realizing that you are the real boss of India.
Naturally, you would prefer to maintain your monopolistic exploitation of the great people of India, but would you nonetheless consider allowing Starlink to compete?
There are many areas of India, as there are in all countries, with no Internet access, which denies children the opportunity for education and for small businesses the opportunity to sell their goods to a global market. Starlink would change their lives for the better.
Thank you 🙏
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Breaking:
US Department of Labor suspends Indian IT giants Infosys, Tata, Wipro and HCL, along with Cognizant and Capgemini, from the permanent labour certification programme over alleged H-1B misuse.