Improving ties success of PM's India visit
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday said the main success of prime minister's recent visit to India is that the cold relation between the two neighbouring countries has turned into a warm one.
The implementation joint communiqué and the accords will help eliminate communalism and militancy from both the countries, they added.
The roundtable on 'Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's India Visit: A Review' organised by Samprodaikota-Jongibad Birodhi Mancha (SJBM), a platform against communalism and militancy, at the LGED auditorium in the city.
Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) General Secretary Mujahidul Islam Selim said the time to calculate the achievements and failures of the premier's visit has not come yet.
“The visit was aimed at improving the overall relations between the two countries. The visit should have been taken place earlier.”
Blind love for India is bad and, at the same time, blind hatred against the neighbouring country is also bad. Any kind of opposition should be done after evaluating everything objectively from the perspective of national interest, he added.
Prof Syed Anwar Hossain said the key obstacles to implementing the communiqué and the accords would be the bureaucratic complexities. So, this should be removed.
Referring to the criticism of the opposition party about the visit, the professor of history department of Dhaka University said criticism should be made responsibly.
Workers' Party of Bangladesh General Secretary Bimal Biswas said it is not right to do politics by taking India as an enemy.
The bilateral agreements would help both the countries to do away with communalism and militancy, he added.
Bimal, however, said the visit could be more fruitful if an accord regarding the water sharing of the river Teesta could be signed.
The roundtable was also addressed by presidium member of Gono Forum Pankaj Bhattacharya and Executive Director of Brac Mahbub Hossain.
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