Comments on: The Amazing Achievements of PM Sheikh Hasina from her India trip

By: pg

pg — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:51:50 +0000

Best wishes from India to the peace-loving people of Bangladesh. Hope together we root out poverty and illiteracy.Sheikh hasina took a very positive step in her India trip.Good days have come to the relations after the win of Avami league. Soon we can resolve our differences and work towards building trust and friendship. Also, India is grateful to Bangladesh for handing over fugitives to India and also for denying any place for terrorism. Hope to see prosperous India and Bangladesh standing united.

By: Global Voices Online » Bangladesh, India: Positive Outcomes Of Sheikh Hasina’s Visit

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:58:03 +0000

[...] Das Gupta and Kh. A. Saleque at E-Bangladesh summarizes the positive outcomes of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's recently concluded trip to [...]

By: Habib Siddiqui

Habib Siddiqui — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:12:40 +0000

Thanks to both Kh. Abdus Saleq and Sushanta Das Gupta for summarizing Prime Minister Hasina’a recently concluded trip to India. The write-up provides a complete picture of what truly happened between the leaders of two neighbors who had their shares of ups and downs in relationships. The trip was a keenly observed event for many – those who wanted to see a positive outcome thus cementing years of mistrust and also those who wanted nothing more than a failure to emerge so that such could be made an issue towards unseating the government.

As I stated in my last article – on a mock memo to PM Manmohan Singh, if I were the PM of Bangladesh, there are many thorny issues that really need more than a simple wound-dressing. Water-share from the common rivers remains the most troublesome issue. I am reminded by newspaper reports that India has not lived up to the treaty obligations of 1996. If true, it is really sad, and thus puts into question the very achievements in this latest treaties and MOUs that Sk. Hasina has signed with Singh. I, therefore, agree with the cautionary concluding remarks of the authors that “If two governments remain honest and committed there is nothing which can barrier the building the bridges of good healthy neighborly relation for the greater interest of the great people of the region. Days will come soon when barbed-wire fencing will be removed and people will move like free singing birds across.”

Let’s hope that both parties are honest and such dreams turn into reality so that as a result of good friendship both our peoples gain from these treaties and MOUs and live peacefully and happily without the fear of hegemony, subordination, war and conflict.

By: Manirul Islam

Manirul Islam — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:18:48 +0000

This visit will remain as a mile stone in the history of our nation. It is achievable none other than Sheikh Hasina, daughter of Bangabandhu. I would take this opportunity to salute Mohamoti Indira Debi and the then Government of India, the brothers and sisters of West Bengal who opened their arms for us and for all the citizens of India, from Kannya Kumari to Kolkata, each of them put their hardship of life aside and contributed to our liberation war by paying Shwaranarthi Tax to the Government. As a nation we bow our head in gratitude to you India – the citadel of global democracy.

By: Imran Zaman

Imran Zaman — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:21:46 +0000

Congratulations to Sheikh Hasina. Her visit seems to have made a major breakthrough in India-Bangladesh relationship that has, basically, been stagnant over the years, since the assassination of our Father of the Nation, BongoBondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. I believe over the next few years, Hasina will provide Bangladesh with more positive results than the military rulers & the BNP/Jamaat had promised us but was unable to deliver.
The BNP is already jealous and worried about Hasina’s success in Delhi over the last couple of days. Reports from Dhaka about BNP leadership’s comments/activities reveal their nervousness at Hasina’s success in Delhi. Sheikh Hasina will give Bangladesh this time what her father had always wished for his “beloved” Bangladesh. Go Hasina,go!