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Teesta, Land Deal Pledges

Aiyar believes India failed to deliver

Tamanna Khan and Jamil Mahmud
India's relations with Bangladesh are crucial, but New Delhi has not been able to deliver on its promises to Dhaka concerning the Teesta waters and land boundary, veteran Indian diplomat-turned-politician Mani Shankar Aiyar has said.
The ties between the two countries, however, have strengthened during the tenure of Sheikh Hasina government, he observed.
Aiyar, who has deep interest in India's foreign policy towards its neighbours, was talking to journalists during his visit to Dhaka to attend a conference on "Religion and Politics: South Asia".
Recalling his association with Bangladesh since its birth, Aiyar said, "I was made the secretary of a committee that was to effect relief supply to Bangladesh on the day of Liberation and I used to visit Bangladesh very frequently in 1972, before many ofyou were born."
A member of the Indian National Congress, Aiyar was petroleum and natural gas minister from May 2004 to January 2006, and youth affairs and sports minister till 2009. He was also the first minister for development of
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India's northeast region.
Referring to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress's opposition to the land boundary deal, Aiyar hoped the bill seeking its ratification will be passed in the coming winter session of Indian parliament.
Asked if Mamata would support the bill, Aiyar said, "Inshallah, I hope she will."
"It is not a question of party politics but ensuring that we have the kind of relationship between India and Bangladesh that we used to have during the Liberation Struggle and thereafter," he added.
He also said the most impacted by an Indo-Bangla agreement are those who live in West Bengal. "Mamata will absolutely have an opinion about that."
"What I think we made a mistake is attempting to conciliate her at the level of the National Security Adviser (NSA), instead of sending a senior minister to her with the NSA acting as an adviser," Aiyar said. He hoped that "As chief minister of West Bengal, she [Mamata] will demonstrate the maturity to help promote the relationship between two neighbouring countries without being too partisan with respect to segments of West Bengal opinion."
He said he firmly believes that benefits will not flow to India's northeastern region unless Bangladesh becomes a natural country of transit that will connect the region with the rest of India.
Replying to a query about Bangladesh-India deal for setting up the coal-fired power plant at Rampal and environmentalists' concern about its impact on the Sundarbans, he said environmental issues have to be properly addressed in a constructive spirit.
About border killings, Aiyar said, “I think it is one of the failures of Indian foreign policy that we could not build the 'bhai-bhai' policy that existed in 1971."