Through the implementation of much-awaited Land Boundary Agreement (LBA), Bangladesh would get 10,050 acre more lands from its next-door neighbor India, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said.
The Leader of the House said this in reply to a question raised by treasury bench member SM Mostafa Rashidi Suja in the House during her question answer session on Wednesday, reports BSS.
"The Indian parliament has ratified the LBA by amending the constitution. Today's implementation is the success of our initiatives and through the execution of the deal, the long-awaited expectation of the enclave people has been fulfilled," she said.
The prime minister said the enclave people have been leading a very inhuman life for the last 68 years. They remain deprived of all civic amenities and out of touch of development as they have not been specified as to which country they belong to.
Highlighting the background of execution of the LBA, the Leader of the House said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman signed the historic, prudent and farsighted deal with the then Indian Prime Minister Srimati Indira Gandhi on May 16 in 1974 in New Delhi by realising the importance and depth of the problems related to Bangladesh-India boundary.
The PM said Bangladesh parliament ratified the LBA through the third amendment to the constitution.
But after the assassination of Bangabandhu, no subsequent government took any effective initiative to implement the LBA, she said.
Sheikh Hasina said the land boundary problem with India would have been solved and Indian parliament would have ratified the LBA much earlier, had Bangabandhu been alive.
