India, Sept. 11 -- Congress MP and former global diplomat Shashi Tharoor on Thursday expressed worry at the victory of religio-political party Jamaat-e-Islami's student wing in Dhaka University elections in Bangladesh.

"This may have registered as barely a blip on most Indian minds, but it is a worrying portent of things to come," Tharoor wrote on X on Thursday.

He saw it as a sign of "increasing sense of frustration" with the major parties, the (banned) Awami League of ousted former PM Sheikh Hasina and the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) of another former PM, Khaleda Zia. He theorised that the Jamaat-e-Islami won "not because these voters are zealots or Islamist fundamentalists, but because the JeI are not tainted by the corruption an...