Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said if Awami League had not been voted to power in the 2008 and 2014 general elections, winning the maritime boundary rights over Myanmar and India would not have been possible. Questions could be raised whether the previous governments except that of Awami League and I myself had ever dared to file cases over maritime boundary disputes with India and Myanmar. BNP didn’t have the courage for even demanding the rights to maritime boundary, and that is the fact,’ she said. The Prime Minister said this when expatriate Bangladeshi journalists working for different print and electronic media in the UK called on her at Hilton Hotel on Park Lane in London yesterday afternoon. She alleged that although Bangabandhu had taken initiatives for gaining the country’s due maritime rights, after his assassination, Ziaur Rahman, HM Ershad, Khaleda Zia and caretaker governments did not take any initiative for establishing Bangladesh’s maritime boundary rights, leaving a vast marine area out of Bangladesh’s control. Bangabandhu's younger daughter Sheikh Rehana, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki, eminent expatriate journalist Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury, UK AL president Sultan Sharif and general secretary Syed Faruk were, among others, present, according to UNB.
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