Centre picks former Union minister Dinesh Trivedi as Indian envoy to Dhaka | India Information
3 min learnNew DelhiUp to date: Apr 28, 2026 02:57 AM IST
AT A time when ties with Bangladesh is at an important stage of restore, former Union minister and BJP chief Dinesh Trivedi has been appointed as India’s Excessive Commissioner to Bangladesh, the Ministry of Exterior Affairs introduced on Monday. That is the primary time within the final 12 years of the NDA authorities {that a} political chief has been appointed to function an envoy.
Whereas the observe of appointing non-Indian Overseas Service officers isn’t new, the BJP-led authorities had not made many appointments the place profession diplomats weren’t despatched as Indian envoys.
In December 2015, Ahmad Javed, a 1980-batch Maharashtra cadre IPS officer and former mumbai Police Commissioner, was appointed as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
Trivedi, who joined the BJP from Trinamool Congress in 2021, has been chosen after months of hypothesis over the appointment of Indian Excessive Commissioner to Bangladesh.
At the moment, profession diplomat Pranay Verma is the Indian Excessive Commissioner in Dhaka. He had navigated the powerful and difficult interval in the course of the interim authorities from August 2024 to February 2026, after the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League authorities collapsed on August 5, 2024.
Sources informed The Indian Categorical that earlier, profession diplomat and Indian ambassador to Indonesia, Sandeep Chakravorty, was in rivalry to succeed Verma, who’s now headed to Brussels as India’s envoy to Belgium and the EU.
Sources mentioned Chakravorty was thought-about for the previous few months since he had served in Dhaka as India’s Deputy Excessive Commissioner. He had served in the course of the Hasina regime, and had an excellent community with the BNP in addition to the opposite political stakeholders, and his title was virtually finalised.
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However, sources mentioned, the federal government determined to search for a politician after BNP chief Tarique Rahman gained a landslide victory within the Bangladesh polls in February 2026.
Among the many names thought-about have been former Governor of Bihar and Kerala and former Civil Aviation Minister Arif Mohammed Khan and former Minister of State of Exterior Affairs M J Akbar. However, lastly the BJP management and the federal government determined to choose Trivedi for the place.
A BJP chief, who’s conscious of the vetting course of, informed The Indian Categorical, “After the Donald Trump administration assumed workplace within the US and appointed non-career diplomats as political appointees in ambassadorial positions, there’s a pondering within the social gathering that the Indian authorities also can experiment with related technique — at locations the place we’d like and we are able to.” This has influenced and formed some pondering in direction of selecting Trivedi.
A former Railways Minister and Minister of State for Well being and Household Welfare, Trivedi has shut to 3 many years of expertise as a parliamentarian; he was awarded the ‘Excellent Parliamentarian’ award in 2016. With roots in pupil politics, he has been a member of each Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. He was earlier with the Congress, Janata Dal and Trinamool Congress, earlier than becoming a member of the BJP in 2021.
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