Illegal migration
- lack of economic opportunities
- porous borders
Border management
- porous borders due to geography (rivers)
- notorious for smuggling
- trafficking in arms, drugs and people
China card
- to supplement it’s bargaining capacity against India
Presence of Anti-India groups
- presence across the borders
- Harkat-al-jihad-al-Islami (HUJI)
- recently banned political outfit- Jamaat-e-Islami
- HUJI-B has links w/ al-Qaeda
Water Sharing
- we share 54 trans-boundary rivers - big & small
Some Major Water Sharing Disputes
Rising Radicalization
- ill treatment of minorities in Bangladesh
Impact of India’s domestic policies
- Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)-2019
- National Register of Citizens (NRC)
- may affect India-Bangladesh relations.