‘India will deploy army here (Bangladesh)’

[scholseys]

‘India will deploy army here’
Staff Correspondent, bdnews24.com

Published: 06 Apr 2014 21:04 BdST Updated: 06 Apr 2014 21:04 BdST

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A senior BNP leader has said India may deploy army in Bangladesh in the name of guarding its power corridor.


Standing Committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy made the insinuation on Sunday while speaking at a human chain.

It was held in front of the National Press Club protesting against the government’s decision to give power corridor to India

Roy said the power transmission lines that will link north-eastern and north-western parts of India through Bangladesh will waste 4,500 bighas of land.

“Then India will say their infrastructures need to be protected by their own forces. This way they will take away our independence,” he said.

Roy once again repeated the BNP’s claim that the party’s founder Ziaur Rahman was the first president of Bangladesh.

“Those who do not agree, I ask them, who was the president from Mar 26 to Apr 17, before the formation of the Mujibnagar government? Who led the war at that time?”

Roy accused the government of corruption in issuing awards to foreigners for their contributions in the Liberation War.

“Those gold medals have very little gold in them. The ruling party has pocketed money even when making Liberation War medals,” he said.

BNP Vice Chairman Abdullah Al Noman demanded reelection in the Upazilas, claiming that there had been widespread corruption in the recent elections.

It appears the Pagan Indian Army will invade Bangladesh.

 

[Pakistanisage]

Bangladesh Patriots need to stop Hasina ( Didi ) from selling out to India , completely......

 

[jandk]

Bangladesh is our private property. We will have to intervene if bangladeshis try to rebel.

 

[IamBengali]

I read in newspaper that India will supply power at reduced cost if they are given power corridor. Tripura Govt. will provide 100 MW more to Bangladesh this year.

 

[Rainbow]

I think we seriously need to look more thoroughly into alternative sources to generate power. I know solar is not adequate yet but somehow we need to become less dependent on India.

 

[queerbait]

baseless article, pathetic attempt to spread disturbunce in bangladesh by politicians in bagladesh

 

[scholseys]

The Myanmar Pipedream: Myanmar-Bangladesh-India pipeline
Daaman Thandi
E-Mail- daamanthandi@gmail.com
The long awaited Myanmar-Bangladesh-India (MBI) pipeline has been dodged by regional geopolitics and political constraints between India and Bangladesh. First proposed in 1997, the 900 km pipeline was set to deliver 5 billion cubic meters of gas from the Swe field in Southern Myanmar to West Bengal via Tripura, Mizoram and Bangladesh. Sixteen years later, the pipeline remains comatose, and shows little signs of becoming a reality. Located in close proximity to India, Myanmar’s estimated 90 trillion cubic feet gas reserves offered an efficient means of securing India’s energy needs and thus had been envisaged as a salient component of its energy security policy. However, Bangladeshi roadblocks led to an impasse and subsequently the gas from gas reserves were allotted to China instead. Now at a time when Myanmar has again called for bids on 30 of its offshore blocks India must be proactive to tap into the energy source in a timely manner and be prepared to bypass Bangladesh if the need arises.

The Bangladesh Roadblock

The MBI project reached an impasse in 2005 after Bangladesh put forward preconditions that were unacceptable to India. Bangladesh’s intractable demands at that time included: a custom-free passage to and from Nepal and Bhutan, a customs-free passage for hydro-electricity transmission lines to and from Nepal and Bhutan and the onus to reduce its trade deficits with India. Vary of setting a wrong precedent for future bilateral negotiations, India did not concede to any of the demands.

Bangladesh’s proposed redressal has been attributed to two major factors, the first being the gross overestimation of Bangladesh’s gas reserves. With an estimated reserve of 2 trillion cubic meters of gas the government did not see the salience of the pipeline in 2005. Second, the BNP led coalition government that was in office at that time was vocally anti-India and thus had its hesitations in collaborating with India.

In the long run however, gas economics overruled domestic political game play. Since 2005 Bangladesh has constantly had a shortfall of gas due to its inability to tap into its gas reserves. Therefore the BNP’s 2007 initiative to renegotiate the pipeline was not surprising. The pro-India Awami League party that came into power in 2010 approved the pipeline project in 2010. India too amped its diplomatic efforts and in order to insulate itself from another change in government, at the risk of upsetting sitting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has also been courting opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia’s.

China-Myanmar energy engagement

However, the move to fix the political dysfunction came a little too late. China surpassed India and Bangladesh in securing Myanmar’s energy resources. The MOU for a 2,388 km pipeline from Kyakphu in Myanmar to China’s Yunnan province that was signed in 2008 came into fruition this July. The Myanmar-China pipeline is set to supply 6.5 trillion cubic feet of gas from Block A1 (Shwe field and Shwephyu field) and block A3 (Mya field) to China over the next 30 years. Heralded as a major accomplishment in China-Myanmar bilateral ties, the pipeline has reduced China’s dependence on the Malacca strait, the main transit point for its oil imports. This has been a major debacle in India’s gas line diplomacy as it lost its preferential buyer status in the A1 and A3 offshore natural gas in Myanmar to PetroChina.

Prospects for energy cooperation

Although there have been marked improvements in India-Bangladesh bilateral relations since 2009 India must be cautious of Bangladesh’s ambivalence on energy cooperation, especially if there is a change in government during the upcoming elections. Opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia who has warmed up to Indian diplomatic efforts snubbed India by canceling a meeting with Pranab Mukherjee during his visit to Dhaka in March this year. India must be prepared to go alone and the rerouted line from Myanmar through Mizoram, Tripura and Assam into Kolkata should be traversed – in order to safeguard against another retrenchment.

With the slated 2015 completion of the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project there is a feasibility of building a pipeline upto Mizoram. The Kaladan Project is a combined inland waterway and highway transportation system that will connect Mizoram with a deep-sea port at Sittwe in Western Myanmar. Along with the roadway a pipeline could traverse.

Even if the pipeline only comes to Northeast India it would provide the northeastern states of India a scope for developing industries; alongside the gas pipeline power-plants fertilizer plants and other industries could be set up. Especially in a province like Mizoram that is relatively peaceful.

India must pragmatically continue to engage with Bangladesh on connecting the pipeline from Mizoram to Kolkata. The advantage of going through Bangladesh is that the spare gas from Bangladesh can also be harnessed as well as a large number of Indian investments can take place in Bangladesh. At the same time, we must also be prepared to bypass Bangladesh knowing that Bangladesh’s implicit susceptibility to negotiate decreases when it knows that it does not have the leverage it previously had.


Reference

&nbs p; Ali, Saleem. "Myanmar, Bangladesh and India: Prospects for Energy Cooperation."News, 13 July 2013.

&nbs p; Chandra, Varigonda Kesava. "Journal of Energy Security." Journal of Energy Security, 19 Apr. 2012.

&nbs p; Kasturi, Charu Sudan. "Delhi Doesn’t Lose Sleep as Khaleda Scores." The Telegraph, 25 June 2013. Web. 2013.

Sidhartha. "India May Get Myanmar Gas Bypassing Bangladesh." ;The Times of India, 07 June 2013. Web.

The Myanmar Pipedream: Myanmar-Bangladesh-India pipeline

Hindustan wants to steal our gas through their companies. Hasina has awarded ONGC Videsh and Reliance gas blocks without any tender or discussion

 

[Rainbow]

All of Bay of Bengal should be our property.

 

[scholseys]

The Indian Ocean should be divided into 3 parts...Arabian Ocean, Bangladesh Ocean and Australian Ocean. Insha'Allah after the balkanization of India, it shall be established.

 

[queerbait]

The Indian Ocean should be divided into 3 parts...Arabian Ocean, Bangladesh Ocean and Australian Ocean. Insha'Allah after the balkanization of India, it shall be established.

good luck with that......hopefully there will be a bangladesh after 50 yrs.(sarcasm)

 

[scholseys]

@MBI Munshi

 

[Badbadman]

Should have taken Bangladesh over in 71.

 

[IndoUS]

good luck with that......hopefully there will be a bangladesh after 50 yrs.

Well their forefathers tried and failed miserably, and themselves ended up breaking into two. Now they will try it, I guess Apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Wonder which country we will create this time.

Should have taken Bangladesh over in 71.

And get stuck with these guys.

 

[Slayer786]

Should have taken Bangladesh over in 71.

I know. Why didnt you guys do that? Strangely instead of taking back your old lands that you lost in 1947, you guys created another muslim country on your eastern border.
Not very smart, is it?

 

[scholseys]

Should have taken Bangladesh over in 71.

hindsight is a bitch