State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat has alleged that BNP is spreading propaganda and falsehood over the Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) signed between Bangladesh and India recently, reports BSS.
"BNP is spreading propaganda and falsehood over the MoUs without reading and understanding all of its clauses…The party is misleading people by partially presenting some clauses of the agreement," he said.
The state minister made the remarks while addressing a press briefing at his ministry office in the city on Monday in response to BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's recent remarks on the MoUs signed during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's recent India visit.
Noting that Bangladesh's recent MoUs with India are not a subservient foreign policy of the government in anyway but it is beneficial to both the friendly countries, he said BNP is spreading propaganda claiming that if Indian trains run through Bangladesh, it will create a security risk here, which is not right at all.
In this connection, he said the clause-3 of the MoU clearly stated that 'red traffic' like dangerous and objectionable goods, including arms, ammunition and explosives, cannot be transported in the train.
Besides, the clause-4 of the agreement also stated that the movement of goods and people between Bangladesh and India shall be subjected to the national laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the respective countries, he added.
But he said BNP never says that Bangladeshi trains will also run via India to Nepal and Bhutan, while trains from Nepal and Bhutan will come to Bangladesh through India and use Mongla and Chattogram sea ports instead of Kolkata port.
They (BNP leaders) do not say that Bangladesh will import 40 MW of electricity from Nepal using Indian transmission lines through its internal power grid, the state minister said.
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