New Delhi: Dhaka raised the NRC and Rohingya issues during the talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina, government sources said on Saturday.
New Delhi stressed that Bangladesh has undertaken a heroic task to facilitate the displaced, adding that India is doing all it can and also providing socio-economic support to them and has already spent Rs 120 crores in aid to help the displaced.
However, India conveyed to Dhaka that there is a need to recognise greater effort to persuade the displaced that it was in their interest to go back as it is not sustainable to live in such conditions for a protracted period.
Sources added that Bangladesh also raised the NRC issue, and New Delhi pointed out that it is an ongoing process and 'we have to see how the situation emerges'.
The bilateral discussions between Modi and Hasina were useful, clear and there was no disagreement, sources added.
On Friday, while addressing a press conference, the ministry of external affairs' spokesperson Raveesh Kumar had said, "On NRC, we have been saying that this is a Supreme Court-mandated process. It is an ongoing exercise. Therefore, from the MEA perspective, there is nothing that I can add at this stage. I think it is important to understand that the due process has to be completed first."
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