Voicing grief over Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s remarks, BNP Senior Joint Secretary Total Ruhul Kabir Rizvi this day (7 September) entreated the neighbouring nation to appreciate Bangladesh’s independence and sovereignty.
Talking to newshounds after placing a wreath at BNP founder Ziaur Rahman’s grave, he also reminded India that the oldsters of Bangladesh would no longer get it nicely if it maintained contact completely with Sheikh Hasina and her party, adopting a one-sided capacity.
“What the Indian defence minister said after a assembly with armed forces commanders turned into alarming. There are questions within the public’s pointers on whether his feedback are supposed as provocation,” the BNP leader said.
He questioned whether the Indian minister’s remarks were phase of India’s efforts to comfort Sheikh Hasina and abet her in regaining her dominion. “If no longer, then why is the Defence Minister talking on this form?”
Earlier on Friday, Rajnath Singh entreated India’s armed forces to analyse the ongoing conflicts between Israel and Hamas, Russia and Ukraine, and the unique challenge in Bangladesh to prepare for the “unexpected”.
Rizvi said the oldsters of Bangladesh for the time being are exciting freely after riding out the “monster” Sheikh Hasina from the nation.
“The phobia of arrest or enforced disappearance has disappeared. Of us for the time being are roaming freely and sound asleep peacefully. Don’t you (India) esteem this? Don’t the Indian policymakers favor for the return of democracy in Bangladesh, for folks to stay in peace, and to live in a sovereign nation?” he asked.
The BNP leader also questioned whether India is unable to get the fact that Sheikh Hasina has been ousted from Bangladesh. “If here’s so, it suggests that for you, the oldsters of Bangladesh and their sovereignty are no longer if truth be told gain. It looks that finest one particular person, Sheikh Hasina, is deemed safe on your thought. Right here’s very unhappy.”
Despite having many unresolved components, he said Bangladesh respects India’s sovereignty. “Factual as we appreciate India’s sovereignty, India can even peaceable also appreciate our freedom and sovereignty.”
Rizvi nicely-known that the oldsters of Bangladesh, on August 5, unitedly took to the streets, risking their lives to pressure out Sheikh Hasina, apt as they had previously driven out the British and ousted the Pakistanis in 1971.
“Factual as the oldsters of Bangladesh can suffer oppression for a lengthy time, additionally they know solutions to unite and demonstrate salvage to the backside of against foreign invaders. India should always undergo in tips that Bangladesh is a nation of heroes,” he said.
The BNP leader said Sheikh Hasina killed over a thousand folks and fled to India when no other possibility turned into readily available, as folks were heading in direction of her keep of residing, Ganabhaban, defying the curfew.
“One in every of her ministers (Quader) had claimed that the daughter of Bangabandhu would no longer flee. Now, where is Sheikh Mujib’s daughter? How can these that possess oppressed their occupy folks, who possess made Ayna Ghar and focus camps to detain folks for years, govern this nation?” he questioned.
Rizvi said that Hasina has been staying in India because no democratic nation, in conjunction with the UK and the USA, is willing to grant her asylum.
Recalling that one of Sheikh Hasina’s International Ministers once likened India-Bangladesh household participants to that of a husband and wife, he said, “When Hasina fled to India, she turned into obtained there as if she were a bride.”
Rizvi, along with participants of the Nurses’ Association of Bangladesh, placed a wreath on the grave of aged President Ziaur Rahman in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, marking the Twenty first anniversary of the organisation’s founding.
