PM Hasina couldn’t fetch even bucketful of water from India: BNP

A BNP leader has sarcastically summed up the government's relationship with India as one-sided love that only gives but does not take anything back.

Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi commented on the Teesta water agreement that has not seen any progress.

The comments came on Thursday, just a day before Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to the neighbouring country.

“The most widely expected Teesta deal is not on Sheikh Hasina’s agenda. The foreign minister also failed to provide any information at a press conference,” Rizvi said at a news briefing in Dhaka.

“Over the last eight years, the Awami League continued to say they are going to sign the Teesta deal with India. Sheikh Hasina could not bring in even a bucketful of water from India.”

“The government is giving everything to India unilaterally as years pass. But the people of Bangladesh are not getting their fair share. This one-sided love is very difficult: it knows how to give, but not to take anything back.”

Hasina will leave Dhaka for the West Bengal on Friday on a two-day visit at the invitation of her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.

During the visit, the premier will attend the Visva Bharati university convocation at Shantiniketan as the guest of honour and will be conferred with the honorary Doctor of Literature degree by Kazi Nazrul University at Asansol.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is expected to attend the Kazi Nazrul University event.

Rizvi said, “Sheikh Hasina is giving up sovereignty just for sticking to power. The prime minister has learnt well how to betray the people.”

About the anti-drug crackdown, he said: “It is impossible to eliminate drugs by killing people. The government is doing it with evil intention. Real drug dealers remain at large.”