Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sought India’s support to cling to power again in the next election, says BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.
He was speaking with media at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office on Sunday (May 27).
“She spent public money for this visit to request the Indians to prolong her stay in power,” he said.
“This is very much clear from the media reports that she did not go to India to serve the country’s interest. She did not go to settle issues like Teesta water sharing treaty, or BSF’s border killings,” Rizvi added.
Sheikh Hasina went to India on Friday in a two-day trip to inaugurate Bangladesh Bhaban at Shantiniketon.
“Weakening the country’s sovereignty Sheikh Hasina’s government has gifted India with whatever they wanted including transit, but got nothing in return,” said the senior secretary general of BNP.
Quoting a report published at Kolkata’s newspaper Anandabazar, Rizvi said that in return of everything she gave, she asked for all-out support from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to cling to power.
Claiming that ‘internationally renowned autocrat’ Sheikh Hasina, being afraid of losing power, has started lobbying to foreigners, he said, “Because she has understood that people are now ready to fight back her oppressive rule.”
Observing that the people of Bangladesh don’t want to believe that India, the biggest democracy in the world, wants the ‘internationally renowned autocrat’ to be in power, the BNP leader said, “India should not support any stigmatic election like it did in the past.”