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What does Sheikh Hasina’s resignation mean for India-Bangladesh relations?

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, and Sheikh Hasina, then Bangladesh's prime minister, shake hands in Dhaka, Bangladesh in June 2015 after finalising a much-delayed land swap agreement to settle a longrunning border dispute [AM Ahad/AP Photo]

When the deposed Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled Dhaka by military helicopter on August 5, following weeks-long deadly protests against her government, there was little doubt about where she was headed.

India has supported Hasina and it is where she spent many years in exile after almost her entire family was assassinated in 1975.

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