Zia says Hasina sold out Bangla interest, rejects India deals

Anisur Rahman
Dhaka, Jan 17 (PTI) The war of words between Bangladesh's
'battling-begums' intensified on Sunday with opposition leader
and former premier Khaleda Zia terming the Indo-Bangla pacts
signed during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's India visit as a
total sell out.

Rejecting the deals reached with India, Bangladesh
Nationalist Party (BNP), leader Zia said her arch rival had
"sold out" the country's interest and vowed to mobilise public
opinion against the Awami League-led government's
"subservient" policy.
"We are not antagonistic to India... but it is not
acceptable that we will continue to give everything to India
unilaterally," she told newsmen a day after Hasina hosted a
briefing to highlight the achievements of her maiden New Delhi
trip a year after assuming power.
Zia said: "We are rejecting the joint communique, people
don't accept it". The opposition leader said her party planned
to mobilise public opinion and stage protests on the streets.
Zia said she feared Hasina had signed a "secret security
deal" with India beyond the three treaties and two memoranda
of understanding declared in the joint communique.
"The secret deal was signed keeping the entire nation in
dark," she said without elaborating and demanded that the
treaty be discussed in parliament and outside.
Zia said Hasina's visit was "cent per cent successful for
India, not for Bangladesh" reacting to Hasina's claim that her
visit had been "cent per cent successful". (MORE) PTI AR
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