If you help our enemy, it becomes difficult to honour the mutual cooperation : Gayeshwar Roy, BNP

Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) Hindu leader warns India against giving shelter to Sheikh Hasina

(From left) Gayeshwar Roy of Bangladesh National Party, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina

Dhaka (Bangladesh) – “Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) believes Bangladesh and India must have mutual cooperation; but if you help our enemy (Sheikh Hasina), then it becomes difficult to honour that mutual cooperation,” warned Gayeshwar Roy, a senior leader of the BNP in an interview to an Indian English daily. BNP is the political party of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia. The party is involved in the newly formed interim Government in Bangladesh.

Roy further said that India has now taken the responsibility of Sheikh Hasina. The people of India and Bangladesh do not have enmity with each other; but is it right for India to support a single party (Sheikh Hasin’s Awami League) rather than the whole country ?

Editorial Perspectives

• Gayeshwar Roy never opened his mouth about the massacre of Hindus in Bangladesh. If Roy is persecuted tomorrow for being a Hindu, the Hindus of India will not be surprised.

• Will India give a befitting reply that ‘As Hindus are being massacred in Bangladesh, it is ‘difficult to honour mutual cooperation’ with Bangladesh’ ?