It slams AL for failure to resolve pending issues with India
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said BNP wants a good relation with India based on equality and mutual respect to resolve the disputes with the neighbouring country.
“The person who is now the Prime Minister has said there is no use of engaging in a quarrel with a big country like India…We also don’t want to lock into any quarrel with the country. We want good ties with it based on equality and mutual respect,” he said.
The BNP spokesman was addressing a discussion titled ‘Moulana Bhashani and the Historic Farakka Long March’ arranged by Bhashani Smriti Parishad at the Jatiya Press Club.
He alleged that the much-hyped Teesta deal could not be signed due to the ruling party’s knee-jerk foreign policy. “We’d heard that Teesta treaty would be inked after Awami League assumed office in 2008, but it’s yet to be signed. The Awami League government won’t be able to sign it as it’s not possible to realise rights with a slave-like attitude.”
Fakhrul regretted that though many areas in the western part of Bangladesh are becoming desert due to illegal setting up of dams on the 53 common rivers by India at the upstream, the current regime is still not raising its voice against it.
He said the government is trying to cling to power only using the state machinery and forces as it got isolated and turned politically bankrupt. “The country’s independence is now at stake. We now want such a government which will protect people’s interests and will be vocal about it.”
Mentioning that no citizen of the country is now safe, the BNP leader said the elite force Rab which had been formed to check militancy and terrorism is now indulging in killings, abductions and forced disappearances as the current regime is using them in its political purpose.
He claimed that Rab members made 22 opposition leaders and activists disappeared in Dhaka city alone.
The BNP leader called upon the all, irrespective of opinion and party, to get united to save the country and its people from the grasp of the current regime.
Source: UNB Connect