Let me try and ask Bangladeshis why they get paranoid as if their existence is under threat.
Look at it this way : You are helping your neighbour and you get infrastructure from west to east for free. Let us for the sake of the argument think that it is only for movement of Indian goods. But tell me if you really had good infrastructure to connect your country from left to right.
Worst comes to worst, ask India to stop transit if you think it is more problem than benefit dont you see how easy it would be and the potential economic benefits for companies from logistics to tourism? But do it with proof and not with theory of BNP or so called pseudo intellectuals. Your Government has a deal, let the deal play out and in case it is not favourable, then vote it out.
Everybody has an opinion about something and most of the time there is support for every choice. you choose which choice based on what your perception is. And we are human and sometimes choices created confusion.
We have discussed about the transit many times but as many bhartis has strted to make lots of fuss and yout raised the issue of BILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT and MILLION DOLLAR EARNING so I have decided to ask you some question?
Will you please care to tell me from where these BILLION OF DOLLAR investment will come from and how Bangladesh is going to earn millions ???? India is already getting free water and rail transit based on a treaty which was signed by indira Gandhi with a war torn country in 1972 using emotional blackmail India helped Bangladesh for liberation. This year India asked to extend it up to 2016 obviously to enjoy free transit and to get free transit Indian government asked Bangladeshi government to withdraw the fees which was imposed by finance ministry and national board of revenue of bangladesh. As usual the stooge government of Hassina and awami league has cancelled the fees due to indian request and extend the transit time up to 2012. If it is not
exploitation and lower graded emotional blackmail then what it is?
N regarding road transit so far many theory has been heard but the latest is India will cover only the operation and maintenance fee and any damage done to the road due to usage of Indian truck.If every money goes on repair and operation and maintenance then how come bd will earn your MILLIONS OF DOLLAR income.?
For your info to build the road network it will require 7 billion usd dollar. Even for the sake of your argument let's assume east to west gets connected .... Still will bangladesh make any profit... Even to recover the construction cost. instead if Bangladesh will invest the 7 billion in other projects for say 7000 mw of electricity generation then for sure it will contribute to a huge margin to the GDP growth. But if Bangladesh invest this 7 billion in transit to facilitate indian goods moving how much Bangladesh will profit.... Taking economic consideration in to account does it really make sense for Bangladesh to invest in it when there are many other threats are also associated with it. But still there is big question from where this 7 billion usd dollar will come from.
Now I know you will talk about the 1 billion usd aid that India will provide to Bangladesh. But for your info that is not aid but loan. If it would be only loan then there would be no problem but the main issue is Indian government has assigned many clues in to it such as 85% of the goods or service should be procured from India. Only Indian contractors will inmlement the project. If can not provide any goods it should be provided by service provider selected by India. FINALLY THE BIG CLUE ONLY INDIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY WILL DECIDE WHICH ARE THE PROJECT TO BE IMPLEMENTED NOT BANGLADESHI GOVERNMENT. Now tell me is it really a aid or shoving the poor graded Indian goods and product to the throat of Bangladesh. If Indian would be a real well wisher it would ask Bangladesh select the best service provider through tender. Already many people raised object for the issue including the financial adviser of the previous caretaker government Dr. Akbar Ali khan. He raised the question under which circumstances hassina signed the deal. Under this Bangladesh will virtually have no bargaining power as everything will decide by India and service will be provide by India.
Public opinion has gone hugely against it not on one day. This hassina government was selling the dream for the last couple of year that Bangladesh will become Singapore if it provide the transit, then huge amount of money Bangladesh will earn. later it gradually fall down to 1 billion usd then India will provide only the operation and Mai tangence fee to free transit as to the adviser to hassina mashing Rahman it would be uncivilized to claim transit fee from India. now latest news has emerged that Bangladesh is not only providing free transit but also providing subsidy to the Indian truck as they are using all the petrol and fees which are subsidized only for Bangladeshi product. now tell me what any country's people react under such circumstances.
It is not like that BNP, Jamat are against transit. They have asked for creation of win win situation. Khaleda Zia proposed for a mechanism where India will provide 70% of the amount that they will save. Definitily it will bring Indian truck drivers 30% savings along with a huge amount of time. But India and Al flatly denied this.
Just 1 question is rounding in my mind are the Indians are all begged that they have such cheap mentality where instead of making a win win situation they are just interested for free transit and miscuing the cow as much as possible. Eventually the probable result will be they will kill their golden goose and the stooge hassina at the same time.
