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Do you think Narendra Modi will support Sheikh Hasina's govt. who is known to be ally of Congress? Sushma Swaraj invited Hasina but she didn't invite Khaleda to visit India. Khaleda was ex-prime minister. Sushma was not interested to meet with her but Khaleda broke the norm and met with Sushma in hotel to complain about Awami League and Sheikh Hasina.
Khaleda ‘complains’ to Swaraj
Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 2014-06-27 11:06:32.0 BdST Updated: 2014-06-27 23:06:57.0 BdST
Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj (L) and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia (R) hold a meeting at Hotel Sonargaon. Photo: Khaleda Zia's personal photographer Nuruddin Ahmed
The 40-minute meeting started at around 10:25am on Friday at Hotel Sonargaon.
Party’s Standing Committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan and Vice Chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury briefed reporters on the meeting.
The party described the meeting as "successful”.
Khan said, “The issue of lack of democracy in the country came up in the meeting.
“This so-called Parliament does not reflect the people’s will.”
The BNP and its allies had boycotted the recent national polls demanding a non-party government’s supervision. It ensured a predictable landslide for the ruling Awami League-led alliance.
Since then, the BNP has been dubbing the incumbent government an “unelected and undemocratic” one.
Khan said regional development would be hampered in the absence of democracy in Bangladesh.
“We believe development is impossible without democracy and, therefore, it must be restored,” Khan said.
Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury said Khaleda congratulated the new Narendra Modi-led government.
The BNP chief said the people of Bangladesh wanted to build a good relationship with India.
Swaraj told Khaleda that the new Indian government wanted to emphasise people-to-people relationship instead of favouring any particular political party or a government in Bangladesh.
The BNP hoped that India-Bangladesh bilateral ties would be strengthened and the contentious issues between the neighbouring countries would be solved through discussions.
Swaraj said the new Indian government was trying to build a consensus in the nation to resolve the issues.
Khaleda and Swaraj also had a 12-minute-long private meeting.
Details of it have not been divulged.
Khaleda had met Swaraj once in 2012 during her Delhi visit. Swaraj was then the opposition leader in India's Lok Sabha.
She was given charge of the foreign ministry after the BJP government assumed office last month.
It is her first visit to Bangladesh as the External Affairs Minister.
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‘Stop crying and complaining to foreigners’
Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 2014-06-27 22:48:59.0 BdST Updated: 2014-06-28 01:27:56.0 BdST
“Zia died in 1981. Khaleda Zia in 1990 claimed Ershad was Zia’s killer. ’81 to ’90? Took that long to remember? Why didn’t it occur (to you) before?”
The prime minister’s call came on Friday after the BNP chief reportedly complained about the state of democracy in Bangladesh while meeting Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in the morning at Dhaka’s Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel.
Hasina said, “(She is now) crying and begging to foreign masters after failing to get people’s support. The Awami League does not beg foreign masters.”
“Empowered by people’s power, the Awami League will take the country forward.”
She was addressing a rally organised at Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Udyan to mark the ruling party’s 65th founding anniversary.
“We understand the pain of those who are talking gibberish. It was a wrong political decision (by Khaleda) to not take part in the election. You were unable to thwart the polls... now (you are) making conspiracies,” Hasina said referring to the BNP’s decision to boycott the Jan 5 general election.
The Awami League came to power for a second consecutive term through the Jan 5 general elections amid boycott by the then main opposition and its allies.
The Awami League president, urging Khaleda to stop ‘complaining’ to foreigners, said, “Please stop killing people and defaming the country by whining before others.”
The parliamentary polls were crucial to strengthen democracy and its progress in Bangladesh, Hasina said.
She said her government started work to build the Padma Multipurpose Bridge with own resources as announced. “We won’t bow down to anybody.”
At a recent rally, Khaleda had demanded investigations into the ‘deposited’ money by Bangladeshis in the Swiss Bank.
She had alleged that during the Awami League government’s term those who had plundered money from the share market, Padma bridge project and quick rental power plant projects had siphoned off the cash to Swiss Bank.
Hasina shot back, “Investigations will find that Khaleda Zia’s money is also deposited in the Swiss Bank.”
She said the government received the accounts of the money kept in the Swiss Bank and had already taken measures to find out the people who deposited that and bring the money back.
Khaleda at the same rally had questioned Hasina’s activities during the time when former President and BNP’s founder Ziaur Rahman was killed.
Khaleda’s husband Zia, who had usurped power by clamping martial law after a few political changes since the 1975 assassination, died in 1981 in a failed military coup.
Responding to her political foe, the prime minister said, “After all this time, Zia’s wife is now alleging that we killed him. Why would we kill him? What if I ask Begum Zia, where was she? What was she doing?”
Hasina also asked why Khaleda took 10 years to hold HM Ershad, who came to power following a coup in 1982, responsible for Zia’s assassination.
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