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Narendra Modi pushes for Parliamentary approval of Indo-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken an initiative to push for Parliamentary approval of the Land Boundary Agreement between India and Bangladesh before December 16, the day when the Indian Army defeated its Pakistan counterpart in 1971 and paved the way for the birth of the neighbouring country.
The central leadership of the BJP has asked the party's West Bengal unit to water down its reservations against the agreement in the larger interest of India-Bangladesh relation ..
However, the bill is alive in the Rajya Sabha, where the LBA (Constitutional Amendment) Bill was introduced last year by the then External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid before the winter session was to be adjourned sine die.
Although the ruling BJP-led NDA does not have a majority in the Rajya Sabha, it does not expect opposition on this issue from the Congress, which had introduced the bill. Khurshid had tried thrice to evolve consensus over the LBA but did not succeed.
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Narendra Modi pushes for Parliamentary approval of Indo-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement - The Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken an initiative to push for Parliamentary approval of the Land Boundary Agreement between India and Bangladesh before December 16, the day when the Indian Army defeated its Pakistan counterpart in 1971 and paved the way for the birth of the neighbouring country.
The central leadership of the BJP has asked the party's West Bengal unit to water down its reservations against the agreement in the larger interest of India-Bangladesh relation ..
However, the bill is alive in the Rajya Sabha, where the LBA (Constitutional Amendment) Bill was introduced last year by the then External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid before the winter session was to be adjourned sine die.
Although the ruling BJP-led NDA does not have a majority in the Rajya Sabha, it does not expect opposition on this issue from the Congress, which had introduced the bill. Khurshid had tried thrice to evolve consensus over the LBA but did not succeed.
Whi ..
Read more at:
Narendra Modi pushes for Parliamentary approval of Indo-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement - The Economic Times