Farida would rather lobby NGOs in India than take part in any protest at her party's failure to manage this.
Maybe Dipu Moni, who is a favourite Apa or Bhabi of many blind AL supporters, could make a variety of phittas and take personally to Delhi while still fresh?
It's not as if a strong foreign minister was ever required by any government of Bangladesh.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Farida Majid <farida_majid@...> wrote:
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> Dhaka,
> Nov 25: Different environmental, social , NGOs and political parties in
> Assam and Manipur have become vocal in protesting against the central
> government for constructing the Tipaimukh dam in Churachanpur district
> under Manipur in India, according to reports reaching Dhaka.
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> Protests over the construction of the controversial construction of
> Tipaimukh Multipurpose Hydroelectric Power (HEP) Project continue also
> in other parts of India.
> Meanwhile, a committee on people's and
> environment (COPE) has been reportedly observing five-day sit-in
> agitation in Assam from Thursday which will continue till Monday. COPE
> has also submitted a memorandum addressed to the chief ministers of
> Assam and Manipur, prime minister of India and also central
> environment and energy ministers to stop construction of the dam.
> Protests
> over the planned construction of the Tipaimukh Multipurpose
> Hydroelectric Power (HEP) Project continue even in Manipur where the
> site is located and Assam.
> A leading civil society group North East
> Dialogue Forum (NEDF) said, the controversial construction of mega dam
> on the Barak river in Manipur disrespects the calls of the people from
> both upstream and downstream (Barak valley) for seeking their consent
> and to adhere to existing environmental and social norms.
> The Manipuri newspaper Hueiyen Lanpao reported this Friday.
> Co-ordinator of the Forum S Dhanabir
> said, the project proponents of the Tipaimukh HEP are yet to conduct a
> detailed and independent Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), which is
> required under the Environment Protection Act, 1986 of India and its
> amendment of 1994, where data should encompass information collected
> over a period of at least one year of all seasons to bring out the
> likely impact of the project on ecology, environment, human and wild
> life population at the site itself and both up and downstream.
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> this reason, people from upstream and downstream, both in Barak Valley
> and Bangladesh, protesting the construction of Tipaimukh dam for ages,
> he pointed out.
> "It is a fact that the planning of the Tipaimukh Dam
> Project was done by the government of India without proper research on
> its social and environmental impact in Manipur, said S Dhanabir urging
> the Manipur government to negotiate with the centre for adequate
> compensation to the state and indigenous people inhabiting the project
> area after re-assessing the exact damage the project would cause to the
> land, wildlife and the culture of thousands of families around the
> project," said a report written by S Dhanabir, the social activist and
> founder administrator of JNU.
> He said on completion of the Tipaimukh
> Dam Project, a lake of 240 sq. km will be created in the project area
> and consequently thousands of people around the lake will lose their
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