Bangladesh submits totally to Indian hegemony

by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
November 23, 2011

I categorically hate falling in the line, where people are known as "anti India", while as a citizen of Bangladesh, I really cannot tolerate any action of New Delhi, which goes against the interest of my motherland. I always believe in keeping very friendly relations with India, but strongly oppose becoming a sycophant or unconditional slave of that country, though very unfortunately a large section of the politicians in Bangladesh, and of course those of the ruling party are desperately exhibiting their madly willingness of continuing as the champion lickers of feet of the Delhiwalas. Of course, people with such volatile tendencies are nothing more than enemies of the country.

When Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was in power during 1972-1975, New Delhi's policymakers very shrewdly took the written consent from Mujib in "testing the effectiveness" of the Farakka barrage, completely on a temporary basis for just 40 days. As anticipated by the political pundits and experts in Bangladesh, such "testing" of the Farakka barrage never ended and India continues to cause extreme sufferings to the people of Bangladesh as well as Poshchim Bangla, due to this demonic barrage. Bangladeshi rivers in particular are facing threats of getting dried, as a large number of rivers have already lost the minimum water level required for navigation. Farakka is the name of sorrow for millions of people in Bangladesh as well as in Poshchim Bangla. Many consider Farakka Barrage as New Delhi's heinous venture to punish the Bangla speaking millions as well as indigenous community both within Bangladesh and Poshchim Bangla.

Now, once again, the followers of Chanakya Doctrine have become frantically active in erecting one more barrage at Tipaimukh, which will not only add further sufferings to the people of Bangladesh, but will ultimately place Bangladesh into severe consequences, as the rivers will get quickly dried, while saline water from the Bay of Bengal will grab a large segment of the country, thus finally causing tremendous crisis of drinking water as well as completely destroying fertility of the agricultural lands.

Though Tipaimukh Barrage is going to cause severe natural and human catastrophe in Bangladesh, the foreign minister and the minister in charge of the water resources in Bangladesh are either behaving like duffers thus giving statements favorable to India, or even abetting such anti-Bangladesh actions of New Delhi, which definitely shows to us, how unpatriotic and power-greedy these elements are. It is a huge shame for Bangladesh that, a number of Bangladeshi ministers, including the foreign minister, is trying to act as advocate of Tipamukh Barrage, instead of putting any minimum reaction or protect with India as well as the international communities and the United Nations. Since independence, Bangladesh is for the first time is seeing a bunch of culprit politicians in power as well a large segment of equally culprit politicians in the opposition, who are not only failing to uphold the interest of Bangladesh, but are behaving like mere Indian agents, if not Indian slaves.

It is even rumored that Bangladeshi policymakers have secretly signed an agreement with India allowing New Delhi in erecting the Tipaimukh Barrage. I am not really willing to buy this rumor, as am not ready to consider our politicians as betrayers of that level, but of course, would like to surely investigate such serious allegations. If in real, any such secret agreement was at all signed, the signatories of such black documents will be labeled as "National Enemies" for such treacherous deeds. Whatever the political identities may be of any such politician, the heroic people of Bangladesh will ultimately stand up against such crime, if it has already been committed by signing the treaty.

Why the ruling elites of Bangladesh as well as a large segment of the civil society [shall I call them evil society] are maintaining tight-lip on this extremely important issue? Why self-exiled writers like Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury are mum on this issue? Is there any special reason behind their silence? Have they already pledged their "voice", conscious and even minimum level of self-respect to policymakers in India, just for the sake of continuing as New Delhi's favored and "blessed" political or intellectual concubines?

It is time for politicians and policymakers in New Delhi to immediately abandon the construction of the Tipaimukh Barrage. They should not feel that by managing few politicians and so-called civil society elites, it will be possibly to place such huge burden of acute sufferings on the people of Bangladesh. We Bangladeshis have fought against the repressive Pakistani forces in 1971, and if necessary, we shall begin another war against hegemonic forces of New Delhi if they will further proceed with such devastating project as Tipaimukh. It is clear that Tipaimukh barrage will actually put the entire Bangladesh into multiple sufferings and eventually will turn this beautiful country into a mere desert. Of course since independence, Bangladesh has tolerated number of Indian hegemony and repressive actions. But, this time the entire nation will wake up. Each and every pet-dogs of India inside Bangladesh will be thrown into the Bay of Bengal. This is the high-time for New Delhi to decide – if they want a friendly Bangladesh to live with dignity or India wants Bangladesh to wage a new war. And, of course, New Delhi should note, Bangladeshis never learnt to lose any war. Because, this is the land of braves and heroes!

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