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PM's visit to India now uncertain

Diplomatic Correspondent
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's planned visit to India this month has become uncertain as India failed to ensure signing of the Teesta water sharing deal and passage of the land boundary agreement (LBA) in parliament.
Her second bilateral visit will be fruitless because India has nothing to offer though she has addressed India's major concerns
and created an opportunity to take the relationship to the next level, according to diplomatic sources.
Any prime ministerial visit aims for some deliverables, and to Hasina, those two are the most important issues to be settled, they say.
Officials at the Bangladesh foreign ministry said Hasina had received an invitation to visit India. Hoping that India would be
FROM PAGE 16 able to settle the issues by September, Dhaka hinted that she might go there sometime this month.
Contacted by The Daily Star, an official of the external affairs ministry in New Delhi confirmed the invitation letter but said Dhaka did not yet apprise them of the time of Hasina's visit.
However, on condition of anonymity, he said, "A bilateral meeting between [Indian PM] Manmohan Singh and Sheikh Hasina may be held in New York in the end of this month."
Foreign ministry officials said New Delhi and Dhaka were discussing holding a meeting of the two prime ministers on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, aiming to mitigate diplomatic fallout of Indian government's failure to ratify the LBA and sign the Teesta deal electorally vital for the Awami-League government.
India's unwillingness to settle the issues even after making a commitment will not only be interpreted as dishonour, it will also confirm Bangladeshis' suspicion that India cannot be trusted.
And that will weaken Hasina's political position and also adversely affect the
ruling Awami League in the upcoming national elections, diplomatic sources say.
After a prolonged delay, the Indian government attempted to table LBA constitutional amendment bill in parliament, but External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid failed thrice to introduce the comprehensive land boundary settlement with Bangladesh in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian parliament, amid protests by the main opposition BJP, Asom Gana Parishad and theTrinamool Congress.
The LBA agreement envisages transfer of 111 Indian enclaves to Bangladesh while 51 enclaves to India.Through the swapping of adversely possessed land, India will gain 700 acres of land. The deal also includes demarca-tion of 6.5-km undemarcated boundary.
Diplomatic sources say Indian political class have failed to understand that the exchange of enclaves denotes only a theoretical exchange of land because those are located deep inside the two countries and there has hardly been any direct access to them since 1947.
The Indian opposition
parties' tantrums, in turn, have nearly wrecked the two countries historic outreach to each other. The Indians have failed to understand that Sheikh Hasina has gone all out to address India's concerns over terrorism and spelt out a vision for a very different approach to India when India's relations with all its neighbours entered a turbulent phase, the sources say.
But the goodwill and political risk taken by Hasina do not seem to have any resonance in India, and in future not only Bangladesh, other smaller neighbours will also hesitate to seek cooperative partnerships with India, they observe.
India's noted columnist C Raja Mohan in a recent article wrote, "Hasina has stood for the separation of religion from state affairs, political moderation and regional economic integration - values that are under great stress across our western frontier. If it lets down Sheikh Hasina, India would have actively contributed to the resurgence of extremism in Bangladesh. At a time when jihadi politics is gaining ground in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it will be suicidal for India to facilitate its rise in the east."