Dhaka/New Delhi, Dec. 18 -- Even as Bangladesh's interim government sought to distance itself from student-leader Hasnat Abdullah's threat to separate India's "Seven Sisters" remark, the National Citizen's Party (NCP) leader today went further and said the Indian High Commissioner should have been expelled for sheltering former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Speaking at a courtyard meeting in Fultoli area of Debidwar upazila in the afternoon, Hasnat claimed that Bangladesh's High Commissioner Riaz Hamidullah was summoned by New Delhi today and reprimanded over his (Hasnat's) remarks related to the "Seven Sisters" region, or India's landlocked Northeast.

Hasnat Abdullah, who is the Jatiya Nagorik Party's (as NCP is known in Bengali) souther...