India, May 3 -- All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday slammed former Bangladesh army officer, an aide of country's chief adviser Muhammad Yunus, for his comments about India's northeastern region.

ALM Fazlur Rahman, a retired Bangladeshi major general, suggested that his country should invade and occupy all seven northeastern states of India if New Delhi attacks Pakistan in retaliation for the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam that killed 26 people.

However, Yunus' interim government had distanced itself from the remarks made by Rahman, according to PTI news agency.

In response, Owaisi said that Bangladesh should remember that it owe its existence as an independen...