Tofail slams Khaleda for comments on India

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said on Monday the BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's statement regarding BNP's relationship with India was "false, baseless and groundless," reports UNB
The minister said BNP is 'an anti-Indian party' and the party was formed for making contradictory statement against the neighbouring country and doing politics in the name of religion.
The minister came up with the remarks while talking to reporters at his office.
"Being caught up in a pledge that BNP would not contradict India, the BNP Chairperson surrendered to the Indian government and met the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a commitment to not oppose India," said the minister.
He said Indian separatists had been given shelter by the BNP in Sylhet forests and Chittagong during the tenure of the BNP government. "Not only that, Khaleda is a patron of Harkat-ul-Jihad and other militant organisations," he added.
Besides, the 10-truck arms haul had been recovered during the tenure of the then BNP-led government, and several trucks of arms had been delivered to the Indian separatists, said the minister.
"Khaleda should be ashamed of not being a part of the Ganges Water Treaty, Land Boundary and Maritime Boundary agreements with the neighbouring country," said Tofail.
Claiming the agreements signed between India and Bangladesh during Modi's visit were 'on equal basis', the minister went on to say that Bangladesh would be more benefited by the agreements signed between the two countries.