Politicians, academics and professionals at a roundtable discussion on Tuesday called on the political parties to wage movements against Indian water aggression against Bangladesh.聽聽聽聽
The International Farakka Committee, Bangladesh, with the support of the International Farakka Committee, New York, organised the roundtable at the National Press Club to commemorate the Farakka Long March anniversary organised by Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani on May 16, 1976.
The speakers called on the interim government to take initiatives at national and international levels for the renewal of the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty with a guarantee clause, the conclusion of the Teesta Treaty, the implementation of the Teesta Master Plan and the overall management agreement on the remaining 52 joint rivers to ensure their environmental flows.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party central leader and former water resources minister,聽 Hafiz Uddin Ahmed said that the flow of water in Bangladesh decreased due to the construction of numerous dams on each of the 54 common聽 rivers between two contries.
He said that they also wanted to divert the water of the Brahmaputra River to the Ganges through the mountains.
鈥榃e get 65 per cent of our water from the River Ganges,鈥� he said.
Senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said that the Indian government was carrying out water aggression against Bangladesh out of their plan to establish their hegemony. Former Jahangirnagar University vice-chancellor Jasim Uddin Ahmad, Syed Tipu Sultan, chairman, IFC, New York,聽 Md Hasan Nasir, geopolitical analyst,聽 Qazi Mostafa Kamal and others also spoke at the programme. IFC Bangladesh President, Mustafa Kamal Majumder, presided over the event.
