The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami’s electoral candidate for Khulna-1 parliamentary constituency, Krishno Nandy, had last applied for visa at the Indian Assistant High Commission in Khulna on July 19, 2025, documents accessed by Northeast News reveal.
While the visa application was submitted along with all supporting documents, Nandy’s bid to visit India failed as officials at the Assistant High Commission considered it “suspicious enough” to not warrant issuing him a visa.
He applied for a 12-month, multiple entry medical visa and his expected date of journey to Kolkata was August 1, 2025.
He intended to travel by road and sought entry into India at Ghojadanga in North 24 Parganas.
Northeast News has learnt from other sources that he previously visited India on at least occasions, between August 2013 and December 2023.
Proprietor of M/s Nandy Trading Corporation, Nandy lives with his family – a wife and two sons – Nandy hails from Chuknagar in Dumuria, Khulna.
While his Facebook profile says he was born on December 30, 1971, he entered December 30, 1976, as his date of birth in the visa application.
Nandy, informed sources in Khulna Northeast News spoke with said that the Jamaat-e-Islami nominee’s main source of income is providing loans with high interest rates and deals in cement and other commodities.
Holder of National Identity Card No. 3750296406 and passport number A13340533, Nandy’s visa application says that he previously held a Bangladeshi passport (number BY0509618) issued by the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry on January 9, 2019.
The existing passport (No. A13340533) was issued on January 16, 2024, and is valid till January 15, 2029.
Nandy states in his visa application that he had previously visited Turkey and Thailand.
He had travelled to India on previous occasions as he was issued a visa (No. VL5794800) on June 18, 2023.
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At that time, he had sought a tourist visa and he provided the name of one Pintu Chakroborty of Gobordanga in North 24 Parganas as the person at whose address he stayed in.
In the visa application form, which he signed on July 19, 2025, Nandy said that he wanted a medical visa, providing “Monipal Hospital” at Mukundapur in Purba Jadavpur areas of Kolkata, just off the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, as his “Place of Stay/Hotel”.
He provided two references – one being Chitra Nandy, who apparently lives at 223, Barakhola Lane at Mukundapur under Purba Jadavpur police station.
But his attempt to get visa failed when officials at the Indian Assistant High Commission in Khulna ostensibly on the ground that the entries made in the document raised more suspicions than confidence, besides raising questions on their authenticity.
During his last visit to Kolkata, for which there is photographic evidence, he met another Bangladeshi national-turned-Indian-citizen who “entertained” him at his New Town apartment.
