Transit to India

Under Moghal rule of Delhi, the British East India Company was wrongly granted exemption from payment of taxes for carrying trade, export and import activities. And subsequently the history of the later period of whole of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan for over 180 years is known to all. Before Bangladesh granted transit facility to India the latter was spending and losing billions of dollars for carrying goods and commodities from India to her seven sister states. Before granting transit some of our ministers, bureaucrats, political leaders, economists and think tanks told us and convinced us that if we grant transit to India, Bangladesh would earn billions of dollars as transit fees. New Delhi also assured and promised the same. Now, our technocrat adviser to the prime minister, Dr Mashiur Rahman, has surprisingly stressed that there is no need for payment of transit fee by India. What is this? How and why is this happening? Why are our ministers, MPs, economists, think tanks and bureaucrats are maintaining a ghostly silence over collection of transit fee from India? We strongly feel and demand that pending payment of transit fee by India our transit agreement with New Delhi may be suspended or cancelled in our greater national interest. OH Kabir Wari. Dhaka