The main opposition BNP has termed Manmohan Singh's Dhaka visit a complete failure and blamed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her advisers for this.

“People became frustrated after the top-level

summit as the country yielded nothing worthwhile from the so-called historic treaties. Even the trust between the two countries has been damaged,” BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said yesterday.

"The prime minister and her office wanted to sign the deals relying only on two people, leaving in the dark everyone, even the other components in the ruling grand alliance,” the opposition leader said.

Asked who the two persons might be, some opposition leaders said it is the PM's advisers -- Mashiur Rahman of economic affairs and Gowher Rizvi of international affairs.

“It's not true that the transit deal was scrapped

centring the Teesta issue. The government already has given transit to India and only a letter of exchange has to be signed for its implementation,” Fakhrul also claimed, replying to a query.

He was addressing a press briefing held at the BNP chairperson's Gulshan office in the capital to come up with the party's formal reaction on Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's tour that ended Wednesday.

The Indo-Bangla summit totally failed also for the government's diplomatic inadequacy, lack of coordination, inefficiency and closed-mindedness, he added.

“The opportunity, created through the visit of Indian prime minister, to resolve the problems between the two neighbour-

ing countries, has been completely wasted due to the government's weak diplomacy," Fakhrul said.

“The people expected a deal ensuring equal watersharing of all common rivers including the Teesta, a righteous step on border killing and positive measures in reducing trade deficits between the two nations,” he continued.

"People also expected an announcement to stop the construction of Tipaimukh dam and dealings like overland transport connectivity in the southeast region of Asia."

"The interest of the country has been ignored while Indian side's has been served in the deals and memorandums of understanding," he said.

It is mandatory to submit

the international treaties before the parliament but the government violated it, he said.

Warning that people will not accept if there is any anti-state content in the deals, Fakhrul spoke of forging an anti-government movement.

BNP Vice-Chairman Shamser Mobin Chowdhury, chairperson's advisers Sabihuddin Ahmed and Abdul Qaium and journalist Shafik Rehman were present at the press meet.

Shamser Mobin, however, considers duty-free access of 46 more Bangladeshi products to India as a forward step but says yet many things have to be done to reduce the huge trade deficit with the neighbouring country.