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Bangladeshi influx into Assam to be Indian poll issue

The anti-Congress wave across India will also affect the Lok Sabha polls in the northeast, and influx from Bangladesh into Assam will be a major election issue for the BJP, party leader Venkaiah Naidu said here Wednesday. The BJP leader targeted the Congress-led government and said the Aadhaar scheme was an attempt to make illegal migrants citizens of the country. India-ElectionsIn the state to review the Bharatiya Janata Party’s poll preparations, Naidu said the Food Security Act was b...

More 100mw from India likely

India may have finally promised Bangladesh 100 MW of electricity from the ONGC Tripura Power Company-promoted 736.6 MW gas-based facility at Palatana in Tripura. India sells 500 MW of electricity a day to Dhaka through West Bengal border. Of the total, 250 MW is sourced from NTPC at Central Electricity Regulatory Commission determined tariff. The rest is traded through open market deals. bd-indiaAccording to media reports in Kolkata and Dhaka, at a meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Bangladeshi counterpart Seikh Hasina, a...

Hindu migrants from Bangladesh must be accommodated: Modi

The Indian prime ministerial candidate of BJP, Narendra Modi said Hindu migrants from Bangladesh must be accommodated in the country and detention camps would be done away with once his party comes to power. “As soon as we come to power at the Centre, detention camps housing Hindu migrants from Bangladesh will be done away with,” Mr Modi told a public rally at Ramnagar in Assam on Saturday. “We have a responsibility toward Hindus who are harassed and suffer in other countries. Where will they go? India is the only place for them. Our government cannot continue to harass them. We will have to accommodate them here,” he said. [caption id="attachment_4374" align="alignleft" width="300"]

Learning parliamentary systems from India!

Speaker of the Indian Lok Sabha  Meira Kumar had conveyed to her Bangladeshi counterpart on Wednesday that India was ready to help strengthen parliamentary systems and structures in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury visited the Lok Sabha on Thursday, and however, managed to exit the House just as Indian MPs resorted to unruly acts over the division of Andhra Pradesh. speakerThe Speaker of Bangladesh’s Parliament Jatiya Sangsad, was in the Lok Sabha’s special box as a state guest when...

Jan 05 elections denoting problem of credibility

Political violence is intensifying in Bangladesh. While some analysts blame the country’s recent war crimes tribunals and the growing role of religion in public life, but most believe the violence is strictly political in nature and doesn’t reflect a fundamental cleavage in Bangladeshi society. violance BDOn the 5th of January 2014, the Awami League (AL), which has ruled Bangladesh since early 2009, won a three-quarters majority in a parliamentary election that has widely been condemned...

Government suffers from legitimacy: Hossain Zillur

Post the violent elections in Bangladesh conducted on January 5, the Executive Chairman of the Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and a former advisor to the caretaker government of Bangladesh, Hossain Zillur Rahman, has pinpointed the failures of the elections that were also shunned globally. "The election has led to a parliament whose legitimacy is questionable. The government which is in place now suffers from this legitimacy issue enormously at home and at abroad," said Rahman. hossain Zillur
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