Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday issued a strong warning that India must not treat Bangladesh as a friendly country, alleging that the neighbouring nation under its interim leadership has sinister designs on India’s Northeast, including Assam . Speaking at the Agenda AajTak programme on Thursday, Sarma said recent political developments in Dhaka posed a direct threat to India’s border states.

"Bangladesh and its political leaders have of late started saying absolutely straight that the Northeast has to be a part of Bangladesh," Sarma said in an exclusive conversation on Agenda AajTak.

He claimed that Bangladesh’s interim head of government, Muhammad Yunus, had presented a distorted map integrating India’s Northeast into Bangladeshi territory during interactions with

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