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Shashi Tharoor, an MP of India's Congress party and a former diplomat, says Delhi doesn't want an "unstable or an unfriendly neighbour".
"As far as India is concerned, the first and most important signal we need to send to the people of Bangladesh is that we stand with them," he told news agency ANI.
"There are some understandable concerns in India about the increasing influence of the Jamaat-e-Islami [Bangladesh's Islamist political party], which has taken a very hostile attitude to India in the past, and possible meddling by China and Pakistan.
India must reassure everybody that we are not an unfriendly power and we have no desire to dominate or control what's happening in Bangladesh. We would like to be helpful. That would be the kind of message that I believe we should convey both publicly and privately," he said.