India’s Heightened Security Posture Along the Bangladesh Border Post-Operation Sindoor: Strategic Miscalculation or Calculated Pressure?

Reading Time: 6 minutes Since the sudden and dramatic political transformation in Bangladesh following the collapse of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government in early 2025, regional security dynamics have undergone significant recalibration. Operation Sindoor, a coordinated and secretive multi-agency operation allegedly conducted by Indian intelligence assets in late 2024 to monitor regime stability and influence elite networks in Dhaka, coincided with an uptick in Indian military activity near the Bangladesh frontier (Times of India, 2025a). This increased tempo has raised alarms in Dhaka and across multiple international fora, with many seeing India’s actions as a coercive attempt to shape post-Awami League Bangladesh’s political alignment. New Delhi’s security establishment has long considered Bangladesh’s internal trajectory as integral to its eastern regional security architecture, especially given the proximity of the Siliguri Corridor — a narrow but strategically vital land strip connecting mainland India with its north-eastern states (Chatterjee, 2022). However, the