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NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to accompany Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Dhaka when he visits neighbouring Bangladesh in September. It would be Mamata's first overseas trip since taking over as CM in May.

The ground work for a Teesta water sharing treaty between India and Bangladesh has begun as external affairs minister S M Krishna concluded his three-day trip to Dhaka on Friday. The water sharing accord is likely to be signed by PM Singh and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina Wajed in September.

As the water sharing deal is between West Bengal on the Indian side and Bangladesh, the Centre has decided to involve Mamata in the treaty just as it was done during the historical Ganga water sharing accord that was signed on December 12, 1996, by the then Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda and Sheikh Hasina, who was the Bangladeshi PM at that time as well. The then Bengal CM Jyoti Basu was credited with playing an important role in signing of that pact.

Basu was in Dhaka for a six-day trip, prior to the signing of the 30-year treaty, to be reviewed every five years, where it was the main subject of discussion with the Hasina government.

This time Mamata as Bengal CM is being taken into confidence by the Centre before the treaty is prepared.

The visit to Dhaka with the PM also provides an opportunity for Mamata to further her goodwill with Hasina. The Bangladeshi prime minister was one of the first persons to congratulate the Trinamool Congress chief after her party's landslide victory on May 13.
 
@ Warm welcome to Bangladesh. But after entering to Bangladesh donnot think that it is about to become part of West Bengal !!!!
@ Donnot dream of "Apar Bangla and Opar Bangla".
 
I don't think you understand what is Apar Bangla and Opar Bangla.

After all you are a Bihari, if I read one of your posts correctly when you asked an Indian poster if he was a Bihari!

And please disabuse yourself of any apprehension that your fantasy injects in you that there is a desire for Opar Bangla.

Not even a ghost of a chance or desire!

Calm your nerves with a Bupropion.
 
Please come. Bangladesh is awaiting for your entrance. Bangladesh ab Hindustani ashirwad se mala maal ho jaye ga.:cheesy:
 
Lets just wait and see is Mamata any better than other west bengal cm in having a better relationship with bangladesh
 
Why is she coming, is she necessary at all? Anyways last week
there was a news in prothom alo
that her cabinet is trying to change the name of West Bengal
to BongoDesh or similar. What utter nonsense. :sick:

We should sue for copyright infringement.
 
Why is she coming, is she necessary at all? Anyways last week
there was a news in prothom alo
that her cabinet is trying to change the name of West Bengal
to BongoDesh or similar. What utter nonsense. :sick:

We should sue for copyright infringement.

Bongodesh???? Come on!!! They never accepted the partition and refused to change the name West Bengal to Bengal which implicates the existence of East Bengal.
As that scheme did not go well, now they want to Change that to Bongodesh. I dont know why they are going through all the trouble, instead name that as Bangladesh ... and we will warmly welcome...
 
They tried to change the name to only Bengal back in 90s when they rechristened Calcutta. As far is I'm concerned, I'm more comfortable with old names.

She is going because WB is a stakeholder in teesta water treaty, you will get nothing if she disagrees.
 
Why is she coming, is she necessary at all? Anyways last week
there was a news in prothom alo
that her cabinet is trying to change the name of West Bengalto BongoDesh or similar. What utter nonsense. :sick:

We should sue for copyright infringement.

Changing name of states and cities is indian government's favourite pastime;)
 
I am afraid you are afflicted with amnesia.

By the way why is it Dhaka and not Dacca?

Is Bangladesh named East Bengal?

Let us not get afflicted with juvenile ecstasy.

We only changed dhaka. The name Bangladesh was always there after independence.
 
We only changed dhaka. The name Bangladesh was always there after independence.

I think you have forgotten the proverb - A miss is good as a mile! :cheesy:

And East Bengal?

Don't get so pathetic when you forget your own history and jump with glee to attack others.

All are not suffering from amnesia, I assure you!
 
She is going because WB is a stakeholder in teesta water treaty, you will get nothing if she disagrees.

India is the stakeholder of teesta treaty. We dont negotiate with WB but with India. She can come for goodwill and will be received with honor.
How Indian central govt deal with WB, is India's internal matter but they have to come to term with Bangldesh regarding teesta.
 
Mamata B is not going to give the decision because she is not empowered to do so.

However, West Bengal is a stakeholder and Mamata B is very pro Bangladesh!
 

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