Secretary General of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Dr. Shafiqur Rahman has issued the following statement on 12th April, 2017 in regards to incoherent and vague address of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that she has delivered in a press conference at Gana Bhaban on 11th April after coming back home from India.
“After completing the state visit in India, Prime Minister in her press conference delivered an incoherent and irrelevant speech, which frustrated and disappointed the nation.
The countrymen expected that the Prime Minister would return home from India after securing the due rights of the people including the long awaited Teesta River’s water sharing treaty and other due demands of Bangladeshi peoples. But the peoples are observing with great concern and anxiety that the Prime Minister has returned after sacrificing the interest of Bangladesh and handing over the defence system to India by signing 11 treaties including some defence deals and 24 memorandums of understating instead of signing the much waited Teesta River water sharing treaty. Defence is covering most of the parts of these deals. In the press conference, the Premier also talked about military training and procurement of arms from India. Her speeches clearly substantiated that she has made our defence force completely dependent on neighbouring India.
Though she denied the fact of her own despair and unfulfilled desires, the countrymen witnessed the exposure of utmost dismay on her face. She also expressed her reluctance to make the signed treaties public by saying that she will publish the deals on time. These hide and seek policies have created severe suspicion among the people. It is the constitutionally sponsored rights of the people to know details about the sensitive defence deals. No one has the right and scope to deprive the people from these basic rights. The people are not interested to see anymore dillydally. They want to know the details of these treaties. If the government really made these treaties for the sake of the people, why they are making one after one lame excuse to disclose these accords?
We want friendship to all and malice to none. But that friendship must be maintained by preserving the national interest and based on equal dignity. In the press conference, the Prime Minister further said, I did not go to bring anything rather went to bolster our friendship. Friendship does not mean losing the own interest. Actually she ridiculed with the nation by saying these words. The nation is ashamed of his irresponsible comments. Such an incoherent speech does not match the dignity of the Prime Minister. Actually he left everything and failed to bring anything substantiate. Her trip is almost a failed trip.
No one had been spared earlier by taking stance against the interest of the people and the country. Therefore, I am urging the concerned authorities to make all the treaties and MoUs signed with India public without making any further delay.”