Government hostage to India, says Fakhrul
DHAKA: Opposition BNP acting secretary-general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir fulminated that the government plays into the hands of India as they are giving everything to the neighboring country.
We are not informed about the treaties already signed or to be signed with India--and even the people of the country do not know anything about the treaties, he said, as a latest one was sealed.
The spokesperson for the former ruling party came up the allegation while addressing a Human Rights Convention organized by Bangladesh Labour Party at the National Press Club.
He deplored that no problems with India like water sharing of the Ganges and the Teesta, halting Tipaimukh Dam construction, reducing trade gap, demarcating maritime border and return of Tinbigha corridor are being resolved.
In this context, he quipped: We are only giving to India, getting nothing in return.
Observing that the movement against the government is not getting momentum for a lack of spirit among the youth, he said: Today I do not see any spirit of protest among the students of Dhaka University when India snatches away our land, when my sisters body hangs from the barbed wire on border, innocent Bangladeshis are shot down like birds and when conspiracy goes on to make our northeastern region into a desert by constructing Tipaimukh Dam.
Mirza Fakhrul also opined that Khaleda Zia is advancing slowly towards unseating the incumbent government by mobilizing peoples anti-government opinion.
With party secretary-general Dr Mostafizur Rahman in the chair, the convention was also addressed, among others, by JAGPA president Shafiul Alam Pradhan and Dhaka City Jamaat Amir Maulana Rafiqul Islam Khan.
Vice-chancellor of the University of Development Alternative (UODA) and former VC of Dhaka University Professor Dr Emajuddin Ahamed inaugurated the convention.
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