India and the US have also discussed the situation in Bangladesh with US ambassador to Dhaka, Dan Mozena, having visited South Block and interacted with Indian officials, including Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh. Mozena had also met Indian envoy in Bangladesh Pankaj Saran.
Saran met Sheikh Hasina Wednesday and discussed the latest political situation in Bangladesh.
Voicing concern over the rising violence by the BNP and Jamaat, Sheikh Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, 42, a tech consultant, who arrived in Dhaka from the US earlier this week said the "BNP-Jamaat unleashed a regime of violence and terrorism when they ruled. Now they are doing the same. This is the real face and character of our opposition".
He said if the BNP-Jamaat is voted to power again "they will kill Awami League activists, minorities, civil society members, and progressive intellectuals".
To Tarique Rahman's reported ISI links, Joy said: "This is not surprising. There were news reports in the past that he (Tarique) had links with terrorist like Dawood Ibrahim."
During strikes, Jamaat cadres have been attacking the homes and temples of Hindus in Bangladesh.
The protests by the opposition is to demand that Hasina quit and order polls under a caretaker government. She has instead proposed an all-party interim government led by her to oversee the January polls, a provision that is unconstitutional after the 15th amendment that arose after a court judgement pronouncing the caretaker administration system as "unconstitutional".
