India should keep Bangladesh close for fruition of Act East vision
Subir Bhaumik
Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina Indian PM Narendra Modi
The violent protests orchestrated by Hifazat-e-Islam against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bangladesh visit that led to a dozen deaths in police firings, have driven home the rising surge of radical Islamist challenge faced by the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government. Modi’s visit was just an excuse to intensify the agitation for regime change because the Hifazat has continuously raked up violent public protests since the Awami League returned to power two years ago.
First it was against the installation of statues of the country’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rehman on his birth centenary. Then the Hifazat encircled the French embassy and burnt President Emmanuel Macron’s effigies over his comments on Islam following the beheading of a schoolteacher who had shown caricatures of Prophet Mohammad to his students.
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Credit for Bangladesh’s economic turnaround goes to PM Hasina, says The Diplomat article
Started in December 2015, the Padma bridge is expected to be completed by 2021. Photo: SK Enamul Haq Star Digital Desk Star Digital Desk
Once termed a basket case , now South Asia s economic bull case is placed far above many desperately poor African nations it was once compared to, with an estimated 2020 GDP per capita of $1,888.
Subir Bhaumik, in a March 15 opinion piece published by The Diplomat, places much credit for the economic turnaround on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Quoting Editor of The Daily Star, Mahfuz Anam, Bhaumik credits the Prime Minister for leading Bangladesh s Golden Decade of Development between 2010 and 2020. She gave the country an infectious self-belief, the confidence that we can do it, Anam wrote in his column.
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