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 Former High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh Veena Sikri on August 06 explained about India’s ongoing projects in the violence-hit nation after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned on August 05. "The situation in Bangladesh is very volatile today. PM Sheikh Hasina gave her resignation yesterday and she has left the country. She is currently in India and the situation is evolving. We have to watch carefully what is happening in Bangladesh. The world thinks that it was a quota reform movement, a student's movement but the students and PM Hasina have for the longest time been on the same wavelength. It is PM Hasina who abolished the quota in 2018. This year, in the month of June, when the High Court restored the quota, she went to the Supreme Court, again in favour of the students and student groups even joined the government of Bangladesh in going to the Supreme Court...In between, there was a clash between the students and the Awami Chhatra League, so all the other political parties, the Jamaat-e-Islami, Shibir, which is their student wing, and BNP student wing, they all came onto the street and there was complete mayhem, complete chaos, violence, deaths...We in India, are watching it very carefully because we want a stable neighborhood. We want there to be stability, economic development, economic interaction with Bangladesh...Now that Sheikh Hasina has resigned what will be happen to India’s projects in Bangladesh… We have so many projects in Bangldesh,”