Indian envoy summoned in Dhaka over PM's 'gaffe'

[sanibhagwan]

he is frustrated at everyone since he has to listen to Sonia jee

Right. Listening to women get people frustrated.

 

[muse]

Remarks like this play into the hands of Pakistan and China. Beijing, for instance, takes advantage of India's stinginess on market access to open up its own markets to Bangladeshi goods. The PM's remarks comes at a time when the bilateral relationship is being seen as rocky, largely because India is being seen to be stingy with an least developed nation neighbour like Bangladesh. Certainly, on issues like market access or tariff rates, India is seen as less than forthcoming

It's not the remarks, it's the attitudes that form such thinking - it's a challenge for India to be true to her own sense of her true destiny, but that is not possible without imagining India free of it's chains of insecurity and petty minded scheming.

 

[jdme]

Go PM! Tell the truth.

 

[damiendehorn]

Go PM! Tell the truth.

25% of BD in the under the ISI, man these ISI must be good. looks as though the so called learned pm of india hasn't got a clue, he wouldn't know the truth if it got up and smacked him in the face.

 

[fallstuff]

another power?

You said it bud, not a single BD poster mentioned it any way. Humility is the DNA part commonly not seen among your brethren.

 

[harpoon]

25% of BD in the under the ISI, man these ISI must be good. looks as though the so called learned pm of india hasn't got a clue, he wouldn't know the truth if it got up and smacked him in the face.

People here see this incident for what it is and not what is intended for. I believe that this was nothing but an intelligence operation to gauge the the political scenario in BD. By making this 'off the record' statement, India sent the political parties in BD on a panic mode. Even the main target Jamat-e-Islami came out with statement that they are not anti-India. India has successfully made JEI suspicious in the minds of mainstream political parties. They will now think twice before making any arrangement with them. India had to take some criticism and our envoy in BD was summoned, but it was worth it.

This was the same like the 'Two Front War Theory' by our Ex-Army Chieg Gen. Kapoor. It invited criticism from many fronts including the Chinese & Pakistani members in PDF, but they forgot the fact that Indian Generals do not make statements about national policy openly without the tacit approval from GoI.GoI successfully diverted all criticism towards IA than GoI.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

You said it bud, not a single BD poster mentioned it any way. Humility is the DNA part commonly not seen among your brethren.

Shows the Indian frustration that the BD population are not all Indian puppets.

MMH Singh has realised that Awami League do not represent the whole of BD thinking and it must frustrate him that another power is growing in the East that may not be an automatic Indian ally.

If India wants an equal relationship with BD, they are welcome. Bangladeshis would never accept being dictated to by anyone, whether they are white, yellow or brown.

So, it is bud now, is it.

I daresay the rodent's posterior observing is affecting many?

Getting a trifle crosseyed and myopic?!

I maybe a bud, but it appears you are budding!!

That apart, since you appear to be blind that a BD poster had mentioned 'another power', I take the liberty to increase the size of the font, where indeed a BD poster has alluded to BD being another power, albeit rising.

So, instead of being the fastest mouth in the West, do pay attention to what is written instead of taking of an unguided verbal Scud missile!

Humility indeed is the DNA of Bangaleshis!

Another canard being purveyed to deceive and confuse!!

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

People here see this incident for what it is and not what is intended for. I believe that this was nothing but an intelligence operation to gauge the the political scenario in BD. By making this 'off the record' statement, India sent the political parties in BD on a panic mode. Even the main target Jamat-e-Islami came out with statement that they are not anti-India. India has successfully made JEI suspicious in the minds of mainstream political parties. They will now think twice before making any arrangement with them. India had to take some criticism and our envoy in BD was summoned, but it was worth it.

This was the same like the 'Two Front War Theory' by our Ex-Army Chieg Gen. Kapoor. It invited criticism from many fronts including the Chinese & Pakistani members in PDF, but they forgot the fact that Indian Generals do not make statements about national policy openly without the tacit approval from GoI.GoI successfully diverted all criticism towards IA than GoI.

So, it was intended to send a message and keep all on tenterhooks.

Apparently, if that was the intention, he has succeeded.

 

[fallstuff]

People here see this incident for what it is and not what is intended for. I believe that this was nothing but an intelligence operation to gauge the the political scenario in BD. By making this 'off the record' statement, India sent the political parties in BD on a panic mode. Even the main target Jamat-e-Islami came out with statement that they are not anti-India. India has successfully made JEI suspicious in the minds of mainstream political parties. They will now think twice before making any arrangement with them. India had to take some criticism and our envoy in BD was summoned, but it was worth it.

This was the same like the 'Two Front War Theory' by our Ex-Army Chieg Gen. Kapoor. It invited criticism from many fronts including the Chinese & Pakistani members in PDF, but they forgot the fact that Indian Generals do not make statements about national policy openly without the tacit approval from GoI.GoI successfully diverted all criticism towards IA than GoI.

Stay away from whatever you are smoking, from your post I can conclude that it is of clinical quality.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Stay away from whatever you are smoking, from your post I can conclude that it is of clinical quality.

Is he in Bangaldesh from where he is posting?

But then you are the expert for after alll you have experience and so you can vouch for it as you say!

 

[fallstuff]

Is he in Bangaldesh from where he is posting?

But then you are the expert for after alll you have experience and so you can vouch for it as you say!

Don't know nothing about no weed .

Harpoon is smoking some serious stuff. Clinical quality does make one delusional.

 

[harpoon]

Don't know nothing about no weed .

Harpoon is smoking some serious stuff. Clinical quality does make one delusional.

I only smoke what I can buy over the counter legally. I said in my statement that 'I believe'. I am entitled to my views and as you are entitled to yours. Any way pls read this article from DAWN (A neutral source):


NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh claimed many Bangladeshis are “very anti-Indian”, in controversial remarks posted on his official website which were later removed for being “off the record”.

The comments, splashed in Bangladeshi newspapers on Saturday, could strain relations between the South Asian neighbours just as they have been improving.

Singh’s statements to newspaper editors in New Delhi earlier in the week come ahead of an official visit to Bangladesh by Indian foreign minister S.M. Krishna set for July 6 to 8.

Singh’s claim, posted on the prime minister’s website on Wednesday, said “we must reckon that at least 25 percent of the population of Bangladesh swear by the Jamaat-e-Islami and they are very anti-Indian”.

The Jamaat-e-Islami is Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party and was part of the four-party Islamist-allied government between 2001 and 2006.

Singh added that Jamaat-e-Islami members “are in the clutches, many times, of the ISI so the political landscape in Bangladesh can change at any time.”India has long suspected members of the ISI, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency, of planning attacks on India, including the deadly 2008 assault on Mumbai by Pakistan-based guerrillas.

The prime minister’s office removed the remarks from his website on Friday, saying they had been made “off the record”.

“We put it out by mistake,” the Indian Express quoted the prime minister’s media adviser, Harish Kharem, as saying.

The gaffe came as Singh has been battling opposition criticism that he is an ineffective, lame-duck premier who has turned a blind eye to a recent slew of domestic corruption scandals.

Singh’s comments became headline news on Saturday in Bangladesh’s mass-circulation daily Samakal, which titled its lead article: “Uproar over Manmohan’s comments”.

The paper quoted Bangladesh agriculture minister Motia Chowdhury as saying Singh’s claim was “not based on fact” noting that Jamaat-e-Islami got just four percent of votes in the last parliamentary elections, two-and-a-half years ago.

Jamaat-e-Islami also denied in a statement it was anti-India, saying the party “believes in the principle of having a good relationship with India.”In a damage-control move late on Saturday, India said Singh’s statements were “by no means intended to be judgmental.”The people of India “have the greatest affection for the people of Bangladesh,” the Indian High Commission (embassy) in Dhaka said in a statement.

Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, won independence in 1971 with Indian military help but relations between the two countries have suffered rocky periods.

New Delhi regularly accused Dhaka of harbouring Indian insurgents and fostering militancy when Bangladesh was ruled by the Islamist-allied government.

But ties have improved in recent years, especially since Premier Sheikh Hasina came to power. Singh in his comments praised her for helping “in apprehending anti-Indian insurgent groups” operating from Bangladesh.

JEI came out with a somewhat pro-India statement because of this 'off the record' statement by Indian PM. I believe JEI will now on think twice before making anti-India statements and put them on backfoot.

 

[integra]

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Deep Purple visited Bangaldesh?

Good that now everyone is so eager to state that they are not anti India.

 

[praveen]

MMS did a masterstroke