West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said that she will come to Bangladesh on June 5, and go back the next day after signing the Land Boundary Agreement.
This means she will travel to Dhaka from Kolkata separately and not with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will fly in from New Delhi on June 6.
Banerjee will avoid any discussion on much-talked-about Teesta water sharing deal that could not be signed due to her opposition in Sep 2011 during the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit.
This time again the Teesta water sharing issue came to the fore after the announcement of Modi’s visit, weeks after resolving the 41-year-old land enclaves swap deal.
“I will be reaching Bangladesh on June 5 and will be back on June 6 after the signing of the Land Boundary Agreement,” Banerjee told reporters at the state secretariat, according to PTI.
Indian Parliament had recently passed the constitution amendment bill seeking to settle the border issue with Bangladesh.
The legislation would operationalise the 1974 India-Bangladesh Land Boundary agreement that provides for exchange of 161 enclaves adversely held by the two countries.
Modi, however, in an interview to an Indian newspaper did not speak anything on Teesta water sharing and compared the LBA issue with the fall of Berlin wall.
He bemoaned that media could not realise this was a massive achievement and was talking about other issues.
“Had this been elsewhere in the world this would have been cited as an example as big as the fall of the Berlin Wall,” he told the Tribune newspaper.
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