Since Pakistan time India has been trying hard to bring us to our knees, but without a success. It has cut off almost all the sources of water since those days. But, even with all these Indian traps BD has developed an agriculture that has almost trebled after 1971. Indian bullying and before that Pakistani attitude have made us nationalists.
This force of nationalism taught us to work hard. Nearly seven million people are working overseas, all our women are contributing to the economy. We are building a robust economy that we can continue even without an infusion of made-in-India goods and contribution from India.
But, on the contrary India cannot survive without getting all those transit connections via Bangladesh. BD has favoured India by allowing limited passage of Indian goods through our system. It has even built Ashuganj river port to facilitate Indian goods/power plant machines to Tripura. India needs our help without which India willl be bifurcated into two.
Only as a reciprocacy, India should allow power supply from Nepal and Bhutan through its tiny corridor. Not only this, India should heed to positive proposals from BD that BD and India jointly build hydropower plants in those two countries and share the benefits. But, India wants to make itself suffer with less power but detates the prospect of a developed BD. It will not allow BD to join a development venture with the big DADA.
