India is not going to interfere with any democratic exercise in any country around it, particularly in the neighbourhood, said an Indian government spokesperson today.

“The conduct of an election in any part of the world is the prerogative of that country. I don’t think the government of India is going to intervene in or interfere with any democratic exercise in any country around us, particularly in a neighbouring country,” India’s External Affairs Ministry spokesman Raveesh Kumar said at a weekly media briefing in New Delhi today.

He was asked by an Indian journalist representing a Bangladeshi newspaper about the recent visit of a three-member BNP delegation led by its standing committee member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury to New Delhi where it interacted with the country’s leading think-tanks over different issues, including the upcoming parliamentary elections of Bangladesh slated to be held in December, reports our correspondent in New Delhi.

The journalist sought the spokesman’s view about the BNP delegation's visit to India.

The team held meetings with Indian Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) and Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF).

The other two delegation members were BNP Vice Chairman Abdul Awal Mintoo and International Affairs Secretary Humayun Kabir.