Bangladeshi sovereignty under Indian threat!
In my last report, I have expressed anxiety over then future political crisis in Bangladesh, now the time has arrived. The situation seems grieve than the expectations. Both the government and opposition parties kept their rigid stance over their own grounds.
But, there is a presence of larger dark cloud in the Bangladeshi sky. Not only its domestic political and socio-economical stability is under threat because of the power struggle between two largest political parties, but recently it’s been revealed that Bangladesh’s sovereignty is under cross border threats as well, at the same time.
This threat is coming from Bangladesh’s biggest neighbor and the regional power India.
As the election date is coming near, therefore, Indian newspapers, like renowned ‘Indian Times’, started to publish articles with such title as “Bangladesh is in a violent phase and India must do all it can to see a friendly regime return to power”.
India is patronizing current BAL government to secure their several interests like, Securing Indian control over the North-Eastern Indian States who holds considerable demand for secession and situated in the borders of Bangladesh, to use free transit route inside Bangladesh along with the intention to secure and create ground for Indian investments on power sector. Indian government is aware of the fact that Bangladeshi public do not want to serve Indian purpose on their own costs. The recent Indian project to build an environment damaging power plant with an agreement with BAL government in Bangladesh’s biggest forest faced with severe protests all over the Bangladesh.
The upcoming election of Bangladesh is an extremely important one for the country’s future orientation. Superpowers like U.S, China and India, all are concerned with their own interests in the future Bangladesh.
In the other hand, global power U.S seems to take more pragmatic stance which is not in line with India. Bangladeshi opposition party BNP already restated that they will keep their stance with U.S in the war against terrorism in the region. Also, the reason behind U.S stance is as of 2nd November, Bangladesh leading newspaper Daily Star published a recent public poll where it shows that 55% votes are to be casts on BNP’s ballot and only 28% to the BAL. Not only this poll, but every other polls on electoral issues are clearly demonstrating that more than 50% of the population is supporting the opposition, U.S has no reason to ignore public demand.
After a visit of U.S ambassador to Dhaka Mr. Dan Mozena to Delhi and Indian reactions to his visit made it clear that this different stance behind Bangladeshi political parties created a conflict between U.S and India.
The disagreement between India and U.S over the upcoming Bangladeshi election is serious to the extent that, Indian newspapers in their articles openly demands India to intervene in Bangladesh, in words like, “This, in a way, revives the pre-1971 scenario where a similar situation forced India to back the Bengali insurrection and militarily intervene in East Pakistan, braving threats of a US naval intervention.”
Just last week, an Indian Air Force’s MI17v5 Helicopter touched the Bangladeshi ground after 42 years, now these demand to Indian intervention into Bangladesh to bring BAL to the power again left no space to ignore the seriousness of the situation as also recently another Indian daily published from Assam published the news of a budget approval from Delhi to spend money in Bangladeshi election, and the amount is way bigger than the amount they spent in last Bangladeshi election’s budget told by 'The Economist'!
India is simply being over confident and seems to exercise power across its border, any Indian activities, covert or overt will not only be a illegal act of violation of Bangladesh’s sovereignty and add extreme tension in the already severe conflicting domestic politics, but also can put millions of Hindu minority’s security under serious risk in Bangladesh.
So, the Bangladeshi political turmoil caused by the fate of upcoming election already been so severe because of the conflict between two most powerful political, and now it added the international dimension to the problem. I hope, at the end the will of Bangladeshi people should win.
Bangladeshi sovereignty under Indian threat! - CNN iReport
, may bhagwaan bless honorable PM Ms. Sheikh Hasina Ji
Such regimes never last. Forget that- BAL can't even carry out this one-party election given the situation in the country.
