Smarana Mitra
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Awami league is not the best. It is just the best option for Bangladesh amongst only 2 options.Do not compare us with Sri Lanka. We are a long long distance away from falling into debt trap. Most important thing is, this Chinese submarine and naval base project is happening under supposedly 'India friendly' govt. in Bangladesh unlike Sri Lanka. Awami League is the best you got in Bangladesh, and they are doing this! Now you can only imagine what are the oppositions in Bangladesh. Even most of the Awami League supporters do not look favorably to Hasina's tie with India.
India is not happy with both but just adjusts. Since BD chose to antagonise India by buying equipment from China, India doesn't need to worry about antagonising Bangladesh
As if now, there is no connectivity via Bangladesh and we are managing well with Chicken neck corridor and naval link Myanmar and then to NE India. We can manage even without Bangladesh.Forget about other things, even your so called 'Act East policy' is largely dependent on connectivity through Bangladesh. Chicken neck corridor is very inadequate even to connect your land-locked and remote North-Eastern states with mainland India, forget about connecting mainland India with vast regions like ASEAN and Asia-Pacific. Even the most promising connectivity corridors between North Eastern states and ASEAN goes like this, Guwahati-Agartala-Chittagong-Cox's Bazar-Sittwe-Mandalay-Yangon-Bangkok. Not through thousands of km mountainous-jungle terrain in North east India and Myanmar's hinterland through Moreh crossing. So even for the sake of this so called 'Act East policy' you should not ignore Bangladesh's concerns to cozy-up with Myanmar.
Bangladesh corridor vital to India’s ‘Act East’ policy
https://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/bangladesh-corridor-vital-india-s-act-east-policy
Anchoring India’s Act East Policy Through Bangladesh – Analysis
https://www.eurasiareview.com/03012019-anchoring-indias-act-east-policy-through-bangladesh-analysis/
Talking of human decency? We know what kind of people BD has. It is not even long back that people elected BNP which was openly hostile with India and completely lacking decency and sucking up to barbarians and foreigners for assistance. Awami League is also hostile but doesn't simply express it openly. Yet, there is not much human decency visible.We are looking at it like every responsible govt. should, which is looking at it from the prism of human decency and humanitarianism, not petty regionalist rivalry at the expense of human suffering or sucking up to and cavorting with lawless thugs from Banana republics for gaining marginal oil and mineral exploration rights.
But coming from India, this was hardly unexpected, where humanitarian treatment (even for Indian poor people themselves, and even today) is in very short supply. Kanjoosi and betrayal not just in deeds but also in actions undertaken.
India operates 12kilo class submarine and it hates them? This is some strange logic. The submarines have 40 year life span. The current submarine is used for 27-28 years and 2-3 years under maintenance or repairs. So, it has life till about 2035. Moreover, this is just for training's sake, not the end of the line. Sice Myanmar navy has no submarine training, it will be foolish to handover latest submarine. Training and consistency for 3-4 years after that will demonstrate understanding of good practices. After that, one can get better and newer submarine.Where else will the simians turn to? Except getting fourth-rate rejects from a third rate country like India. MM is a textbook example of a Pariah state now...
This story has the making of a practical joke on a massive scale. Indians hated the Kilos and wanted to get rid of them, now they can fob these defective subs off on MM on the pretext of 'defence cooperation'. Good income and political gain as well. Two birds with one stone.
Something that still has close to 15 years life left is not useless.That Kilo donated free is gonna be a 'dock-queen' in a few months. I can almost guarantee this.
What else can you expect from something rejected by Indian Navy?
Simians get played so easily....
Regional power?This is the time Bangladesh should stand up an assert its status as a regional power.