Two advisers to PM now in Delhi to discuss bilateral issues

[idune]

Two advisers to PM now in Delhi to discuss bilateral issues


Nizam Ahmed

Bangladesh and India are weighing existing bilateral relations including delay in implementing a land boundary agreement signed last year and fate of a proposed accord for sharing water of a common river, officials in Dhaka said on Wednesday.

Two advisers to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for New Delhi on Tuesday to discuss bilateral issues, including implementation of the land boundary agreement and signing of a deal to share water of the river Teesta.

Dr Gowher Rizvi and Dr Mashiur Rehman, advisers to the prime minister on international and economic affairs respectively are expected to return to Dhaka on Friday after reviewing all the important bilateral issues including a proposed project on another common river.

"The advisers will also discuss proposed Tipaimukh barrage to be built on the river Barak in Manipur state, some 200 km east of Bangladesh border," an official of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) told the FE.

The issues of allowing road and rail transit to India are also likely to come up for discussion as the transit issue is much important to India as Teesta accord to Bangladesh, the official said.

The advisers have flown to New Delhi on an invitation from Shivshankar Menon, the national security adviser of India, which is eager to upgrade bilateral ties with Bangladesh.

Dhaka, that extended all out cooperation to India over the last three and a half years, has been disappointed due to delay in implementing the land boundary agreement and almost no progress in signing of a deal to share Teesta river water, political analysts said.

The invitation came following a meeting between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the summit of Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran last week (Aug 29), when the latter assured the former of signing the Teesta water sharing agreement and tabling a bill to amend constitution in the parliament soon aimed at early implementation of land boundary agreement.

However, a personal secretary of Dr Rizvi said without giving details, "It's a routine bilateral visit to discuss regional issues with the respective senior officials of India."

The existing bilateral relations between the two neighbouring countries are extremely friendly compared to anytime in the past, but delay in implementation of boundary agreement signed last year and signing of Teesta river accord have been worrying both the governments.

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Two advisers to PM now in Delhi to discuss bilateral issues

Faced with unpopularity and riddle with repeated corruption scam most prominent indian stooge actors within Awami league regime ran to consult indian master.

 

[hassana]

very wise decision good leadership on both sides,well done

 

[Luffy 500]

The 2 most die hard malaunic slaves of GOI is running to their masters. They are just follwing their normal routine of boot licking.

 

[idune]

Delhi worries on Hasina’s popularity slide

Special Correspondent

The Times of India published an article entitled ‘India’s worries could mount with Khaleda Zia’a expected return to power in Bangladesh’ on August 29, 2012. It said that the India intelligence agencies were very worried at the rapid decline in popularity of the incumbent Awami League government and the expected return to power by BNP.

The article mentions: “New Delhi has got unprecedented cooperation from the Hasina regime in busting the havens of Indian insurgent groups in her country as well as in the investigation of terror incidents with Bangladeshi linkages. However, as the popularity of the Awami League regime under Hasina dips, ceding ground to rival BNP, the agencies fear that the gains of the last few years may be reversed if Khaleda regains power.”
It added: “Obviously, the Indian security establishment is keen to arrest the slide in Awami League’s popularity. Though there is little it can do to reverse the incumbency disadvantage, a positive development on the Teesta water-sharing pact, financial assistance for the Padma Bridge project and exchange of enclaves may go a long way in correcting the negative perception in Bangladesh that Hasina has not managed any major concessions from India. However, these will be possible only after UPA’s troublesome ally, the Trinamool Congress, is convinced to drop its reservations on Teesta and the enclaves…..Even as efforts will intensify over the next year to recover lost ground for Hasina, senior intelligence officials here claimed that Khaleda’s BNP alliance, saddled by corruption cases and expected conviction of its leaders by war crimes tribunals, could see a reversal in its growing popular perception closer to the polls, expected sometime in February 2014.”

Uncharitable, obscene
This article is followed by more than four hundred comments from the readers, an overwhelming majority of whom are Indians. The language used by the Indians to demean the Bangladeshis is mostly uncharitable and obscene. It is obvious that most of them think that Bangladesh is still a ‘basket case’ and is dependent on Indian charity for its survival. The poor Indians seem to be oblivious of the fact that Bangladesh has surpassed India in almost all social and economic indices and in fact this year has left India behind in GDP growth rate. Industrial growth in India is plummeting while it is fast rising in Bangladesh.

Indians know nothing about the tremendous progress Bangladesh has made in the recent years. They treat Bangladesh as a poor cousin of Eastern India which in turn is treated as a poor cousin of Western India. While India as a whole is communal, Eastern India is even more communal. It is common in this region for those who are considered to be of low cast to be submissive to the upper class Brahmins to be punished or even be killed. Thus like the lower caste Hindus, Bangladeshis have no business to be prosperous or successful and this may give rise to the anger and envy they feel towards Bangladesh.
India will most definitely try their best to hold on to their assets in Bangladesh by influencing the public opinion whichever way they can. Ruthless persecution of the opposition parties seems to be high on their “to do” list. But this is unlikely to deliver the desired result as people tend to forget that what happened more than five years ago and are more likely to be influenced by the government’s inaction on a number of corruption and law and order issues that is plaguing the country today.
The only option left for India is to impress upon the western countries to allow the holding of the next general elections under the present Awami League government. This is the only way that Awami League can hold on to power. On the other hand, losing the next elections is not an option for this party. The Awami League is exactly in the same boat as the Caretaker Government of Fakhruddin and Moinuddin, a BNP victory in the 2014 General Elections will be very unhealthy for all the beneficiaries of the current government, exactly as a BNP victory in 2008 would have been to the last Caretaker Government. A defeat in the next elections is not an option for the Awami League and with its growing isolation, it will have to be more dependent on Indian support.

India’s NE strategy
India on the other hand has not been able to extract the desired tangible advantages that it wanted of Bangladesh. The Indian intelligence report clearly exposes their need for Bangladesh support to hold on to their remote north eastern territories. It is ridiculous to claim that insurgents there need Bangladesh support to fight Indian control there. If the Maoists in central India can effectively fight the powerful Indian army without any external support, it is most unlikely that the much better organised, far more experienced insurgents fighting in some of the most inhospitable terrains in Asia will need the support of Bangladesh.
On the contrary, the Indian army, whose recruits are mostly from the plains, do need easy access to these hilly battlegrounds which only Bangladesh can provide. India needs transit through Bangladesh for quick, and more importantly, cheap transport of weapons and personnel to their remote north-eastern battlegrounds.
Certain developments in India have not been advantageous for the Awami League. The departure of “Kakababu” Pranab Mukherjee from the Indian central cabinet and the rise to power by Mamata Banerjee has left Awami League with no powerful friends in New Delhi. This means that India will not be able to oblige Bangladesh with anything that would be seen as a friendly gesture, i.e., Teesta Barrage waters or the exchange of enclaves. This would mean that India would be pressing for long term concessions from the Awami League without giving anything in return. The way things are in the country now, the Awami League may have to do just that if it wishes to stay in power.

Holiday

 

[Luffy 500]

^^^^ about the article in times of India, just check out the comments by bangladeshis on Amardesh.
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Just epic. Both amardesh, holiday and other dailies are doing some good reporting on the Indian article.