PM's India trip cent per cent failure: BNP
Friday, 15 January 2010
Opposition BNP has declared the Prime Minister's India tour "a total failure", saying New Delhi benefited from the deals signed while Dhaka gained nothing, reports bdnews24.com.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on her return from India Wednesday said outcome of the trip was "a hundred per cent success" and termed it the start of "a new era of cooperation" between the two neighbours.
"The Prime Minister's tour was a hundred per cent failure," BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain told a press briefing Thursday.
Delwar said three deals that were signed for combating crime by the two sides during the visit were "unequal and anti-state".
"It is India that was profited by the deals, not us. The country will have to face innumerable losses due to the agreements," he said.
A BNP standing committee meeting Wednesday night discussed the Prime Minister's tour.
"BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will make the position of her party clear before the nation Saturday," said Delwar.
He also reiterated the opposition's stance that they could not return to parliament, as there was no "congenial atmosphere".
"We want to go back to parliament. But the ruling party has not offered any scope for us."
"The party's parliamentary party will decide in a meeting whether we will return to the House or not this session," he added.
Delwar expressed sorrow for the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on her return from India Wednesday said outcome of the trip was "a hundred per cent success" and termed it the start of "a new era of cooperation" between the two neighbours.
"The Prime Minister's tour was a hundred per cent failure," BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain told a press briefing Thursday.
Delwar said three deals that were signed for combating crime by the two sides during the visit were "unequal and anti-state".
"It is India that was profited by the deals, not us. The country will have to face innumerable losses due to the agreements," he said.
A BNP standing committee meeting Wednesday night discussed the Prime Minister's tour.
"BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will make the position of her party clear before the nation Saturday," said Delwar.
He also reiterated the opposition's stance that they could not return to parliament, as there was no "congenial atmosphere".
"We want to go back to parliament. But the ruling party has not offered any scope for us."
"The party's parliamentary party will decide in a meeting whether we will return to the House or not this session," he added.
Delwar expressed sorrow for the devastating earthquake in Haiti.