NN Online:
LGRD Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan said on Wednesday that the government is shifting away from a passive foreign policy towards India.
He made this remark at the closing ceremony of a training workshop titled “Achieving Sustainable Development Goals: Financial Inclusion & Rural Transformation” organised by the Bangladesh Rural Development Academy (BRDA) in Cumilla on Wednesday.
Asif said, “Instead, the foundation of bilateral relations between Bangladesh and India will now be based on equality and justice. After the July Uprising, the Interim Government has moved away from a submissive foreign policy with India, the bilateral relations between the two countries will now be built on the basis of equality and justice.”
He also expressed strong discontent over the attack at the Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in India’s Agartala, saying that the interim government had officially protested over the matter.
The adviser reiterated that national development could be achieved through financial inclusion and rural development.
He lauded the event by LGRD ministry, BRDA, and the African-Asian Rural Development Organization (ARDO), encouraging more such programs and expressed his optimism that participants would use the knowledge gained to contribute to rural development.
BRDA Director General Saif Uddin Ahmed chaired the closing ceremony.
