Dhaka, May 12 -- India-Bangladesh relations should be based on mutually respectful, beneficial, and non-interference in each other's internal affairs, a senior Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader said on Monday.

"India is our neighbor. Obviously, we all expect the bilateral relation should be a neighborly one relationship. Mutually respectful, mutually beneficial, one of non-interference - these are the basis for any relation. We want the relationship to last and flourish. This is how we look at the India-Bangladesh relationship. Both sides should pursue, try, and work towards that. So that this relationship sustains through the basis that I just mentioned", Amir Khosru M Chowdhury, a member of the Standing Committee of BNP, told A...