NN Desk :
Eminent economist Professor Anu Muhammad today urged the Interim Government to reveal all treaties in details signed in the energy and power sectors during the Awami League governments and cancel those which are against the national interest.
“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, reports, BSS.
“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.
Anu Mohammad demanded the Interim Government to make public all military and civil agreements with India and other countries in the greater interest of the nation.
Noting that there is no Hindu-Muslim problem between Bangladesh and India, he said it is a problem of Indian expansionist attitude and the incumbent government should pay attention to this specific issue.
Recalling the India’s support to War of Liberation, Anu Mohammad said India stood beside by Bangladesh in 1971 for strategic reasons, nothing else.
Anu Mohammad said India is also dominating in the Rooppur project. The first task of the present government should be finding out the ways to scrap 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.
