Bangladesh faces Indian water aggression: BNP

Alleging that India has established its full control over Bangladesh due to the current government’s subservient policy, BNP  Sunday vowed to face the ‘water aggression’ by the neighbouring country together with people.
“Our government has given away India our all weapons for realising the due share of water from the 54 common rivers out of its too much love for India. Now India has established its full influence on Bangladesh,” said BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, according to a news agency.
Addressing a roundtable, he also lamented that the present government is least bothered about realising the due share of water from the neighbourng country as it is busy appeasing them only to cling to power with its support.
The BNP spokesman said they will now carry out two movements — one at home for forcing the current regime to hold an election under a non-party neutral administration for establishing a pro-people government and another at the international level for realising the fair share of water from all the common rivers.
BNP arranged the roundtable, titled ‘Teesta River Water Sharing: Context Bangladesh’, at a city hotel.
Prof Dr Sabir Mostafa Khan, head of Water Resources Engineering Department, Buet presented the key note paper at the discussion.