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A Bangladeshi invite for Mamata: Will she go?
Monday February 20, 2012 09:09:15 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: An
India-Bangladesh trade body Monday said it will invite Mamata
Banerjee to a business fair in Dhaka as chief guest - a move that
comes after the West Bengal chief minister previously refused to
go to that country over the sharing of the Teesta river waters.
"We want to invite Mamata Banerjee to the Indo-Bangla Trade Fair
May 31. We are officially inviting her," India-Bangladesh Chamber
of Commerce and Industry president Abdul Matlub Ahmad told
reporters on the sidelines of a programme here.
Asked if Banerjee would accept the invitation, Ahmad said the
Trade Fair would deal purely with trade.
"The business and investment environment between India and
Bangladesh is on the upswing. India has opened the doors for
Bangladeshi products and Bangladesh has also opened its doors for
Indian investment," he added.
Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai Saturday met the chief
minister in Kolkata to find a solution to contentious issues like
the Teesta water sharing pact with Bangladesh and said the talks
were "positive and useful".
The talks were held in the background of Banerjee's letter to the
prime minister in which she protested Bangladesh getting more
water than specified in the Farakka Barrage water sharing treaty.
While Dhaka is entitled to 35,000 cusecs of water, over 80,000
cusecs flow into Bangladesh after two sluice gates broke down at
the barrage. As a result, the water level of Bhagirathi in India
has gone down.
The deal for sharing of Teesta water which flows from north West
Bengal to Bangladesh could not be finalised during Manmohan
Singh's visit to Dhaka in September last year due to Banerjee's
opposition that the proposed pact gave a greater share to Dhaka
than earlier agreed upon by the central and state governments.
Banerjee also argued that she was not shown the draft of the
treaty.
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