Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has urged European Union (EU) member states to relocate their visa centres from New Delhi to Dhaka or other neighbouring countries.

He made the request during a meeting with 28 EU diplomats stationed in Dhaka and India at his office in Dhaka's Tejgaon area on Monday, according to a statement of the CA's press wing.

He said India has restricted visas for Bangladeshis and many students are being barred from going to Delhi to get visas for Europe. They are now facing looming uncertainty about their education, he added.

“If the visa offices of the EU states are relocated to Dhaka or neighbouring countries from India both Bangladesh and the European Union will be benefited,” he said.

During the meeting, the chief adviser expressed his profound respect to the martyrs of the July-August mass upsurge.

He also outlined a brief history of the repression, oppression, torture, enforced disappearances and human rights violations during the Awami League’s 16 years in power.

The incidents of rampant corruption, including money laundering and the destruction of the country's banking sector were also presented before the EU diplomats.

He informed the delegation that former autocratic Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country and took shelter in India in the face of the mass upsurge and now she is hatching a conspiracy to destabilise the country’s peace and prosperity.

“Misinformation about Bangladesh is being spread on a large scale. I seek your support in preventing such misinformation,” he said.