Prime Minister Tariq Rahman’s foreign affairs advisor Humayun Kabir has said that Bangladesh will no longer budge on border issues. “This Bangladesh is not the Bangladesh of the past,” he said.
He said that neither the people of Bangladesh nor the government are afraid of the barbed wire fence. He said, Bangladesh also has its own plans regarding the border.
Humayun Kabir made this comment while answering the questions of journalists at the Ministry of External Affairs on Monday afternoon.
The newly elected BJP government in West Bengal has announced that it will hand over land to India’s Border Security Force (BSF) within 45 days for erecting barbed wire fencing along the international border with Bangladesh.
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari made the announcement after the first cabinet meeting of the new government at the state secretariat in Howrah on Monday.
“The required land will be handed over to BSF within 45 days. The responsibility for this has been assigned to the Chief Secretary and Land and Revenue Secretary,” he said.
When asked about the new decision of the West Bengal government, Humayun Kabir said, “Now a new government has been formed in West Bengal. Election rhetoric can often be extreme, and people sometimes make inappropriate or indecent comments to win votes. But actually governing is a different matter.”