BNP asks PM to whom she gave undertaking to come to power [ Tritiyo Matra News ]

BNP asks PM to whom she gave undertaking to come to power

Local March 14, 2017

Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Monday asked how prime minister Sheikh Hasina came to power in 2014 and to whom she had given her undertaking.
The party came up with the retort in reply to the prime minister’s recent remarks that BNP had come to power in 2001 by giving undertakings to sell gas to India.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at a news briefing at the party’s central office said they were stunned at the prime minister’s recent ‘irresponsible’ remarks.
He said Indian foreign secretary had come to Bangladesh before January 5, 2014 general election and went everywhere and met HM Ershad to bring him to that election.
‘Do not people and BNP know that Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) had a vital role in that election boycotted by opposition parties, including BNP?’ he asked.
Fakhrul said the prime minister’s comments proved that foreigners in different times interfered in the changeover of governments in the country.
He refuted the prime minister’s remarks that RAW officials passed time at Hawa Bhaban (once office of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and her son, the party’s senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman).
Fakhrul said there was a public perception that outsiders (pointing at foreign intelligence) passed time at prime minister’s residence.
She (prime minister) should explain it, he said.
On the prime minister’s upcoming visit to India, the BNP leader referring to Indian newspapers reports said that another 25-year agreement might be signed between Bangladesh and India.
Fakhrul said the government should disclose what it would discuss with the Indian government before the prime minister’s visit.
He cautioned that BNP and people would not accept any other agreement against national interest and the country’s sovereignty.
People want agreements on water sharing of Teesta and other common rivers, he said.
He refuted the prime minister’s comment that Khaleda Zia during her visit to India as prime minister in the 1990s did not discuss Teesta water sharing.
He read out a joint declaration of the two countries following Khaleda’s visit saying all pressing issues including sharing of common rivers and killing in border areas were discussed.
He lamented that Bangladesh gave to India whatever it demanded, including transit, facility to use Bangladesh’s river and land route, but Bangladesh got nothing.
The BNP secretary general came down hard on the authorities concerned for their negligence that caused death of a man following collapse of girder of Mouchak-Moghbazar flyover near Malibagh railway gate on early Monday.
BNP leaders Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu, Syed Emran Saleh Prince, Shama Obaed, Taiful Islam Tipu and Munir Hossain, among others, were present.