BNP has alleged that the Awami League government has failed to make any progress on the much-sought Teesta water-sharing agreement as its relations with India are unilateral ones.
"Awami League has been speaking about signing the Teesta deal over the last eight years," said the party adding: "Sheikh Hasina couldn't bring even a bucket of water from India despite having very friendly ties with it."
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the comments while speaking at a press briefing at the party's Nayapaltan central
office yesterday. "The current government has been unilaterally giving India everything at its will over the years, but it could not realize people's fair share of water," he said adding: "It's a one-way and unilateral love with India, not a two-way one. A unilateral love is very difficult as it only takes many things instead of giving anything."
The BNP leader said the PM is going to India but the Teesta water-sharing issue is not there in agenda of discussion to be held during her tour.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will go to Kolkata today to attend Visva Bharati Convocation Ceremony as the Guest of Honor and receive Degree of Doctor of
Literature at Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali at a press conference earlier on Wednesday indicated that there is no progress over Teesta water-sharing deal yet saying that the purpose of the PM's visit is something different.
Rizvi said the current government is fulfilling India's demands without getting anything from it only to hang into power.
The BNP leader further alleged that the government is now carrying out extrajudicial killings in the name of a drive against narcotics with a hidden agenda of eliminating opposition leaders and activists.
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