New Delhi: The Union government has granted Indian envoy to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi a status equivalent to a Union cabinet minister, according to a government order.
An order issued on Wednesday by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said Trivedi "has been assigned the status equivalent to that of Union Cabinet Minister in the Table of Precedence (ToP) as a measure personal to him, without amending the Table of Precedence".
"The position in Table of Precedence is for ceremonial functions only," it said.
Former Union minister Trivedi was appointed as India's High Commissioner to Bangladesh on April 27.
New Delhi's decision to send a veteran politician to Dhaka comes at a time when both sides are seeking to repair bilateral ties, which came under severe strain during the tenure of Bangladesh's interim government headed by Muhammad Yunus.
The relations between India and Bangladesh witnessed a major downturn after the Yunus-led interim government came to power following the collapse of the Sheikh Hasina government in August 2024.
Trivedi, a former Union minister and leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, succeeded Pranay Kumar Verma, a 1994-batch officer of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS).
