Recently, Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh urges the country's military commanders to analyse the situation in Bangladesh. According to Indian media reports, in addition to monitoring the situation in Bangladesh, Mr. Singh asked the armed forces to be prepared for future wars.

Diplomats and security analysts of Bangladesh are not taking such a statement of an important minister of the neighboring country normaly.

Bangladesh, Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain said he was more surprised than concerned. 

"I am more surprised than concerned by his comments. I don't see any reason for such statements. We need to understand whether he said this for his own country's purposes," Hossain said during a press briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today.

The Foreign Adviser further stated that, the way he spoke seems to be beating around the bush. I also don't see why India would need to prepare for war because of the conflict in Israel. It's also unclear what connection India has with the situation involving Hamas. And how Ukraine and Hamas could be compared to Bangladesh is beyond my understanding. We don't want to have any knee-jerk reaction to this. But we will certainly look into why he made such statements.

When asked if Singh's remarks pose a threat to Bangladesh, the foreign affairs adviser said, "I still believe he made this statement for some internal need. So, I don't want to speculate.