Bangladesh is a key pillar of India's Neighbourhood First policy, but recent developments on both sides threaten to disrupt the 'Sonali Adhyay' in bilateral relations. Analyze.

Bangladesh as key pillar to India's Neighbourhood policy in following ways: (1) Bangladesh lies as India's eastern border, critical for handling insurgency in North-east India. (1) Strategically important to be address India's chicken neck issue. (3) Effective relationship with Bangladesh is critical to address India's concerns affecting region and geopolitical security in region. Challenges to India-Bangladesh relations: (1) Trade instance are increasing welfare on Chinese imports create foreign policy stifled for India. (2) Regime change in Bangladesh, which is not in favour with Delhi, creates strategic challenges. (3) Disruptive relations breeds insecurity and other security challenges in India's North-east.

Necessity for peaceful North east connectivity, connecting in vegan. (4) Increasing influence of China in Bangladesh calls for India's deepening ties with Bangladesh. (5) Bangladesh a futures India's Act East policy and various connectivity projects BIMR. Challenges to India-Bangladesh relation: (1) Trade instance are increasing welfare on Chinese imports create foreign policy stifled for India. (2) Regime change in Bangladesh, which is not in favour with Delhi, creates strategic challenges. (3) Disruptive relations breeds insecurity and other security challenges in India's North-east. (6) It also infact hydroelectricity and other Cooperative partners eg: people to people exchange. India needs to strategically handle the political regime change in Bangladesh, while building trust between both countries is sin-que-non for cordial acting in bilateral relations.

And other security challenges in India's North-east.

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