We do not know if the government of India cares to know that our people do not find friendship with India greatly to their advantage.
The new Citizenship Amendment Act to deny citizenship one-sidedly to effect removal of deprived citizens is going to create a big crisis for Bangladesh is too obvious not to see.
The losers of citizenship will be pushed out but where?
India under Prime Minster Narendra Modi has already become a big human crisis for both the Muslims and the enlightened Hindus in India. In Delhi and some parts of India police are used for beating up and killing Muslims.
This is international news with pictures of police brutality committing without restraint or fear of being caught.
It should be clear to anybody that police are actively helping Hindu rioters in connivance with Modi’s government. Such an inhuman racial policy against Muslims of India with police participation cannot be treated as an internal matter. To protect human rights is an international obligation.
We have to say keeping it in mind that how rational it is to have respectable relationship with India when Prime Minister Modi’s strong racist policy is a threat for peace and communal harmony we so proudly preserve.
Mr Modi’s policy of pushing out Muslims under changed citizenship law means pushing most of the displaced persons across the border into Bangladesh.
At the same time we are pleased to note that responsible Hindus are resisting Modi’s hateful and dangerous anti-Muslim policy.
On the other side, media reports said India is adamant to install meshed steel fences in at least 58 more places, within 150 yards of the zero line, along the border with Bangladesh. Meshed steel fences cannot be climbed and are effective against conventional hand-cutting tools.
However, the issue was raised in a meeting in Dhaka on Monday between the foreign secretaries of the two countries – Masud Bin Momen of Bangladesh and Harsh Vardhan Shringla of India.
Shringla emphasised completing the fencing of a 165-kilometre stretch of the border with ‘modern cut-proof fence’ for border security. India had a plan to erect the fence along Bangladesh-India 4,156 kilometre-long border.
What’s significant is that Indian government has already erected barbed-wire fences within 150 yards in at least 50 places along the border in the last 10 years. But now they have sought ‘concurrence’ from Bangladesh to install meshed steel fences in 58 more places on the plea of ‘overhauling the security system’.
It is foolish to talk about friendship without knowing the country which is seeking friendship. If it is our problem, so then our leaders elected or not must do everything for protecting our interest.
At the same time we must be fully aware what is happening in India. What is sure is that-if we mean well for India it is quite natural that we should expect India to wish well for us.
So far as we know, the Indian government has already constructed double-layer barbed wire fences in most parts of the border for close surveillance when Bangladesh government remained silent.
India has to do what is good for India. If we cannot do what is good for us that is our national failure.
We have to say it again, though giving due consideration to our desired friendship with India that Prime Minister Modi’s strong racist policy is a threat for peace and communal harmony in the region.
Mr Modi’s policy of pushing out Muslims under changed citizenship law means pushing into Bangladesh the displaced persons.
