BNP yesterday voiced anger as the party alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina did not raise the issue of ensuring fair share of water from the Teesta River during her Friday’s meeting with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.  “The Prime Minister met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as she went to India. The country’s people had an expectation that she would return home resolving the Teesta water-sharing problem. But the meeting was limited to only exchanging saris,” said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.

Speaking at a press conference at the party’s Nayapaltan central office, he further said, “Nothing was found (from the meeting) let alone the fair share of water from the Teesta River).”   He alleged that the government has gifted India the Feni River’s water without exchanging anything though the people in the country’s northern region, including Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat and Kurigram, are facing serious water crisis in the irrigation season since India is not giving Bangladesh the fair share of water from the Teesta River.  

 “But the Prime Minister didn’t talk about the problem. People are getting killed along the border almost every day, but Sheikh Hasina has kept her mouth shut also over the matter,” Rizvi alleged. The Prime Minister is least concerned about the water crisis of the country’s people in the northern region and the killing of Bangladeshis along the border, he observed. “She (Hasina) can’t sense the resentment of the people of her own country. She knows only to give, not to take as she’s satisfied only with the guarantee for staying power,” Rizvi added.