Top leaders of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) yesterday conveyed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh their opposition to the Land Border Agreement with Bangladesh.

The BJP leadership told the prime minister that under the agreement India will have to give away much more land in return for what it would get from Bangladesh, sources in the party said.

BJP's stand was conveyed when Manmohan called the party's leaders to

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discuss the agreement with Bangladesh.

The government is seeking support of the main opposition party for passage of a constitution amendment bill in parliament, whose monsoon session is underway, to implement the agreement.

Besides former BJP chief Lal Krishna Advani, BJP

President Rajnath Singh and leaders of the opposition in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley were present at the meeting.

Manmohan's Congress-led LIPA government lacks two-thirds majority in parliament to pass the proposed constitution amendment bill, and BJP's support is essential for this.

The Indian constitution needs to be amended to implement agreement because it involves exchange of 161 enclaves and envisages land swap between Bangladesh and India.

The meeting between the Indian premier and the BJP leaders came almost two weeks after Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni had met Manmohan here on

July 26 pressing for early signing of the Teesta watersharing deal and implementation of the land border accord.

Bangladesh parliament has already cleared the 1974 agreement for which an additional protocol was signed by the two countries during Manmohan's visit to Dhaka in September, 2011.