Today, eminent economist Professor Anu Muhammad urged the interim administration to revoke any treaties that are against the interests of the country and to disclose all treaties inked in the energy and electricity sectors during the Awami League governments.
“India has dominated on Bangladesh in signing the agreements of the projects when deposed Sheikh Hasina government completely surrendered to India,” he said.
Prof Anu Mohammad said this while speaking at a seminar titled “Indian Hegemony on Bangladesh: Nature and What to Do” at the Jatiya Press Club here today.
“Sheikh Hasina signed those anti-state agreements with India as she grasped power without any election but India came forward for her shelter,” he said.
For the benefit of the country as a whole, Anu Mohammad insisted that the Interim Government disclose all military and civil agreements with India and other nations.
The existing government should focus on this particular issue, he said, adding that there is no Hindu-Muslim conflict between Bangladesh and India but rather an expansionist mindset on the part of India.
Anu Mohammad recalled India’s assistance during the War of Liberation and stated that the country’s 1971 support for Bangladesh was solely strategic.
According to Anu Mohammad, India is leading the Rooppur project as well. The current administration’s first priority should be to figure out how to terminate those agreements.
“If the agreements are canceled, there might have some losses, but if we keep it continue, the losses will be higher,” he observed saying there was no headway over the discussion on water-sharing of common rivers with India for 53 years.
Anu Mohammad said India has not signed the UN Water Convention. But Bangladesh should join the convention on a priority basis, he said.
Apart from this, he said Bangladesh should go to the International Court of Justice on border and transit issues to get remedy.
Regarding the propaganda about Bangladesh in the Indian media, he said it was an easy task to publish the real news against the Indian propaganda. But we have failed to do this.
Rooppur nuclear power project is not a glory but big financial burden for Bangladesh as well as a threat to life and country’s economy,” he said adding that more than one crore people would be affected from the nuclear waste of the project.
Prof Tanjim Uddin Khan of Dhaka University said, India by giving shelter to elements of ousted regime, is trying to make Bangladesh an enclave of lawlessness. He called upon everyone to work together to bring Bangladesh out of the Indian political dominance.
Dhaka University Professor Morsheda Sultana and Jahangirnagar University teacher Maha Mirza, among others, also took part in the discussion.
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