The ruling Awami League alleged that the BNP has reverted to being an anti-Indian political party as they again started opposing India just as the two-day Bangladesh visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended.
Failing to get Modi’s support for their party, the BNP leadership is now trying to smear the successful bilateral agreements between Bangladesh and India as controversial, the ruling party alleged at a press conference yesterday.
Awami League Publicity and Publication Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud made the statements at the Awami League President Sheikh Hasina’s political office in Dhanmondi in the capital.
On Tuesday, BNP spokesperson Asaduzzaman Ripon told a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan office: “We as a nation have become disappointed at not signing the Teesta water-sharing deal. It is the failure of the government.”
AL leader Hasan Mahmud said: “The BNP chairperson asked Modi to press the Awami League-led coalition government for an interim national poll, but she failed to persuade him.”
“BNP’s negative statements, mostly about the Teesta Agreement in its press conference held on Tuesday, made Modi’s Bangladesh visit controversial,” Awami League leader remarked.
Hasan Mahmud alleged the BNP is trying to send the wrong message to the countrymen about the successful 22 agreements including the LBA between the two governments.
