Has Bangladesh determined to limit the export of West Bengal’s favorite fish – Hilsa – over delays within the provide of Covid vaccines? Read to search out out. File picture of Hilsa (Photo Credits: Getty Images)India has an enormous fan base for the delectable Hilsa fish, a significant import from Bangladesh. However, if sources are to be believed, Bangladesh has determined to tackle the brief provide of Covid vaccines from India by hitting the place it hurts essentially the most for a food-loving nation like ours: Bangladesh is proscribing the export of Hilsa to India, in response to Ananda Bazar Patrika (ABP).
Over 14 lakh individuals from Bangladesh have been administered India-made vaccines and the nation has been knowledgeable that it’s not doable to ship any extra jabs for now.Sources in Bangladesh recommend that the anger over no supply of vaccines has snowballed into proscribing Bengal’s favorite fish, Hilsa.READ: Hilsa goes lacking from Bengal’s menu | India Today InsightFor fairly a while now, there was a blanket ban on import of Hilsa into the nation. Despite the curbs, the Sheikh Hasina authorities gave particular permission to import 2 tons of Hilsa into the nation to assist Bengal have fun Jamai Sashti (a competition in Bengal) final 12 months.This 12 months, nevertheless, that didn’t occur. Bengalis didn’t get to relish Hilsa from Padma (Ganga is known as in Bangladesh) this 12 months.Some specialists say that it will be incorrect to deduce that the Hilsa was not despatched to India due to vaccines and that relations between the 2 nations are anyway not conducive to Hilsa diplomacy.When West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had visited Dhaka to signal a border settlement, she had jokingly requested Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina why there have been so many sorts of Hilsa gadgets within the menu.Hasina had stated: “As soon as water level rises in Teesta, the Hilsa would be able to swim across to Bengal anyway.”Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.
