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Replying to another question referring to a media report in India, Sheikh Hasina said she does not want India to repay.
“I don’t have the habit of seeking, rather I have the habit of delivering. India would have to remember forever what we’ve given to them as we’ve relieved them from bombing, firing which used to take place every now and then. But, we express our gratitude to them for extending their all-out support during our War of Liberation.”
About the adverse comments of BNP leaders over her India trip, Sheikh Hasina said Khaleda Zia made India visits even her husband Ziaur Rahman paid a visit to India in December 1977.
“Now today, they (BNP) are now crying for water in the Teesta, but the most important issue was the Ganges water sharing (that AL had resolved),” Sheikh Hasina said and adding even Khaleda Zia upon her return from India as the then prime minister told that she had forget to raise the water sharing issue.
The premier also said it was the Awami League government which had peacefully exchanged the enclaves with India which no other country in the world could have done.
CELEBRITIES’ PARTICIPATION IN POLLS
Responding to a query from a journalist that whether the contesting election by the grassroots politicians will be hampered if the celebrities like star cricketers Mashrafe and Shakib come to politics, the prime minister ruled out the apprehension.
She said the stars get nomination in all countries of the world and it’s nothing anew. Now if anybody has desire to contest the polls they certainly brought laurels for the country, she added.
“They have brought the game to a good position and it’s seen in every country… it doesn’t mean the grassroots leaders don’t get nomination,” the premier said.
Sheikh Hasina added: “We all came from the grassroots and groomed up in politics from the school life … we didn’t come as celebrities.”
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