Suranjit is just catering to his base - as he always does. Just like his Nethri. So he is saying that the US has had no direct influence on any policy in Bangladesh :)
And yet do you think he would be secretly grateful that the Yanks threatened to send our soldiers home from UN peacekeeping missions if the CTG did not hold elections?
You bet!
Suranjit, like the rest of AL and BNP, reserves the right to phone 'the Blakes' as and when required.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, lutful bari <lutfulb2000@...> wrote:
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> http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=222899
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> Saturday, February 18, 2012
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> Bangladesh runs not on Blake's advice
> Says Suranjit
> Staff Correspondent
>
> Bangladesh is not run on instructions of Robert O Blake, the US
> assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian Affairs,
> Railway Minister Suranjit Sengupta said yesterday.
> "Bangladesh is
> an independent and sovereign country and it is run by its people. Had
> Bangladesh run by the direction of the Blakes, it would never have been
> independent…. Even, no policy has been formulated in the country on
> instructions of the Blakes," he said, reacting to a comment by Blake on
> the next parliamentary polls.
> The visiting US assistant secretary
> on Thursday hoped that the ruling Awami League and the main opposition
> BNP would reach an agreement through discussions to ensure a free, fair
> and participatory election.
> On the debate over the caretaker government system, Suranjit urged the BNP to raise the matter in parliament, and not use force.
> The government scrapped the system in June last year following a Supreme
> Court verdict that declared the system illegal, but opined that two more parliamentary elections could be held under the system.
> BNP maintains it would not go to the polls unless those are held under a non-partisan caretaker government.
> Claiming that the government has restored the 1972 constitution, Suranjit
> reiterated that the constitution would be amended further if need be.
> He was talking to reporters at a reunion programme of Jagannath Hall Alumni Association at TSC of Dhaka University.
> "If you [BNP] have any acceptable formula [on caretaker system], come to
> the House for discussion," he said, and accused the BNP of trying to
> "realise the demand by force".
> "You talk about parliamentary democracy. But you don't come to parliament, trying to make it dysfunctional."
> Several hundred former students of Jagannath Hall, including politicians,
> government officials, businessmen, academicians and media personalities, were present with their families on the occasion.
> Among others,
> Dhaka University Treasurer Prof Mijanur Rahman, Jagannath Hall Alumni
> Association President Kanotosh Majumder and its General Secretary Ranjan Karmaker attended the daylong function.
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