In October 2019, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was speaking at a gathering of the India-Bangladesh business forum in New Delhi when she referred to India’s decision to ban the export of onions after a delayed monsoon hit supplies.

Several organisations and political parties have been protesting outside the mission against the lynching of a Hindu man in Bangladesh.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar highlighted that India’s relief and assistance mission under Operation Sagar Bandhu commenced on the very day Cyclone Ditwah made landfall in Sri Lanka.