The Bangladesh government has formally summoned India’s Acting High Commissioner Pawan Badhe to lodge a protest against some recent remarks made by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. During a meeting at the Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) Thursday, Director General (South Asia division) Ishrat Jahan conveyed Dhaka’s displeasure, describing CM Sarma’s statements as “disparaging” and “potentially damaging to bilateral relations”. The diplomatic friction comes amid Sarma’s high-decibel campaigning in West Bengal for the just concluded Assembly elections, days after he led the BJP’s campaign in his own state Assembly polls. During his campaign for the BJP in Bengal, Sarma raked up polarising issues like “cross-border infiltration” and “demographic shifts” besides border security. After voting was completed in Assam on April 9, Sarma was deployed by the BJP to participate in its campaigning in Bengal.…