BNP contradicts PM’s remarks on LBA involving BNP

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday contradicted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s allegation that previous BNP governments played no role in implementing Land Boundary Agreement between Bangladesh and India commonly known as Mujib-Indira agreement.
Party spokesman Asaduzzaman Ripon at a briefing at BNP central office said that the implementation of the agreement did not depend on initiative from Bangladesh government as the then parliament of Bangladesh ratified the agreement but the then Indian Congress government led by Indira Gandhi did not ratify it in their parliament.
He said that what Hasina stated at a public meeting at erstwhile Indian enclave Dashiarchhara in Kurigram on Thursday was not correct and it was nothing but denial of truth, he added.
Ripon said that the governments of late president Ziaur Rahman, also the BNP founder, and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia had repeatedly reminded India for implementing the agreement and resolving all unresolved issues between Bangladesh and India.
He criticised Awami League president Hasina’s  ‘baseless’ and ‘imaginary’ remarks made in the past few days that Khaleda was conspiring staying abroad.
He said that Hasina on Thursday at the erstwhile enclave spread politics of envy among new citizens of the country.
He said that such ‘funny’ allegations from the head of the government did not fall into political norms.
Ripon said that that it was inhumane that the prime minister made such ‘imaginary’ remarks about main opposition party leader now staying abroad for medical treatment.
He said that BNP did politics in a democratic way and they had no involvement in politic of arson.
He alleged that the government people staged the incidents of petrol bomb and arson attacks during the immediate past movement and some of them were caught which had been published in various newspapers.
About naming a union council at Dashiarchhara as Mujib-Indira union council, Ripon, giving his personal comments, said that it would be realistic if the union council was named after Indian prime minister Narendra Modi instead Indira Ghandhi as she had no contribution in implementing the agreement.
BNP leaders Sanaullah Mia, Masud Ahmed Talukdar, Abdus Salam Azad, Shamimur Rahman Shamim, Asadul Karim Shahin and Takdir Hossain Jasim were present.

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