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Tipaimukh Dam

BNP did not protest while in power

Says food minister

DU Correspondent
Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr Abdur Razzak yesterday said if BNP would have protested when it was in power then India could not come so far with its Tipaimukh dam project.
"The international tender for the dam was floated in 2005 when Khaleda Zia was the prime minister. But no protest was made at that time," he claimed.
The minister alleged that BNP is trying to make chaos in the country with Tipaimukh dam issue only to make the government embarrassed.
Dr Razzak was speaking as chief guest at a discussion tided 'Practice of good culture is part of building the digital Bangladesh' at Bangladesh Photo Journalists' Association auditorium in the city. It was organised by Bangladesh Cultural Organisers' Foundation.
He said the AL-led government believes in the spirit of the liberation war, and as such secular and progressive cul-
tural personnel and organisations can play a significant role to uphold this spirit and ideology.
The present government has assumed the state power with a lot of challenges and has been working on these issues, he added.
Amjad Hossain, Arun Sarker Rana, MA Karim, Poet Rabindra Gope and Nazmul Hasan Palash also spoke.
Meanwhile, Water Resources Minister Ramesh Chandra Sen has said the government would call a meeting of the Joint River Commission (IRC) in solving the Tipaimukh dam issue if the parliamentary committee finds the dam harmful for the state.
He was speaking at a discussion titled 'Tipaimukh dam: Interest of Bangladesh and politics of the opposition' organised by South Asia People's Union Against F.u n d a me n t al i sm .and Communalism at the WVA auditorium in the city.
"We will call the JRC meeting where our Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be present," he added.
Dr Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, president of Bangladesh Economic Association, said the two prime ministers should sit in formal meeting and solve the problem through mutual understanding and cooperation.
Problems of the common rivers should be resolve y through consensus of all the countries concerned, he added.
Presided over by National Professor Kabir Chowdhury, the discussion was also participated by Engineer MA Matin, former director of Water Development Board, Dr MA Kashem, former direc -tor general of Water Resources Planning Organisation, and journalist Shahnar Kabir.