DHAKA: The students’ group which spearheaded the protests that led to the ouster of Sheikh Hasina as prime minister on Friday launched a political party and vowed to root out pro-India and pro-Pakistan politics from the country.

India-Bangladesh relations have hit an all-time low after the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and an interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, coming to the helm in Dhaka.

A Bangladeshi student group that led an uprising to oust Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last year has started a new political party.

It has been urging India to repatriate Hasina to face charges of crimes against humanity and money laundering, among other allegations. The UN says Hasina's government's crackdown on protesters during the uprising killed about 1,400 people. So far India has showed no sign of extraditing Hasina, who denies the charges.

Shafiqul Alam, a Bangladeshi journalist who serves as the press secretary to Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus, allegedly owns 93.06 Bitcoins, which is equivalent to around $10 million.

In these changes lie an underlying theme — of playing down the Indian leadership’s contribution to the Bangladesh Liberation War in which the combined forces of Indian Army and the Bangladesh freedom fighters had defeated Pakistan’s armed forces in December 1971,

Although there appears to have been some encouraging movement on both sides, the bilateral relations remains somewhat wary.

External affairs minister S Jaishankar urged Bangladesh to decide on the nature of their relationship with India, highlighting issues of blame and min

Students' group that led protests against deposed Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launches itself as a political party

Speaking days after meeting Bangladesh foreign minister Touhid Hossain in Muscat, Jaishankar called out the interim government in Dhaka for making hostile statements about New Delhi.

The students’ group that led the protests against Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina launched itself as a political party on Friday, declaring there will be no room now for pro-India and pro-Pakistan politics in the country.