With Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus in power, Bangladesh does not anticipate any impact from the US election results on Dhaka-Washington ties.
Shafiqul Alam, press secretary to Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus, said that the existing good relations would only strengthen.
"Dr Yunus has friends in both the Democratic and Republican parties. I don't think there will be any impact on Bangladesh. The current positive relationship will reach a higher level," he said while speaking as the chief guest at a debate on the US elections' impact on Bangladesh on Saturday.
State University of Bangladesh became the champion, defeating Green University of Bangladesh in a parliamentary format debate competition organized jointly by ATN Bangla and Debate for Democracy at the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation auditorium in Dhaka.
Shafiqul Alam presented the championship trophy, while the event was presided over by Hasan Ahmed Chowdhury Kiron, chairman of Debate for Democracy.
The US-Bangladesh relation issue gained attention following Republican candidate Donald Trump's tweet condemning the violence against minorities in Bangladesh while criticizing his rival Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in a Diwali message.
"I strongly condemn the barbaric violence against Hindus, Christians, and other minorities who are being attacked and looted by mobs in Bangladesh, which remains in a total state of chaos," Trump wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
"It would have never happened on my watch," he added. "Kamala and Joe have ignored Hindus across the world and in America. They have been a disaster from Israel to Ukraine to our own Southern Border, but we will Make America Strong Again and bring back Peace through Strength!" Trump wrote, in an apparent effort to woo Hindu voters ahead of the November 5 elections.
His message, however, has been praised by Awami League supporters who believe the current US administration was behind the July-August movement that led to the resignation of Sheikh Hasina as prime minister.
Shafiqul Alam noted that Dr Yunus also has many friends in the Republican Party.
Dr Yunus received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2010.
"It required bipartisan support to bestow these awards upon him," he said, adding that Dr Yunus has received overwhelming support since taking charge as chief advisor on August 8 at the request of students.
He also mentioned Dr Yunus's meetings with various heads of state during the UN General Assembly in New York in September, including a rare audience with President Biden.
Professor of anthropology Akm Mazharul Islam of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, President of Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh (DCAB) Nurul Islam Hasib, and General Secretary Ashiqur Rahman Apu were present, among others, as judges.