Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday said that Indian Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s knowledge about the neighbouring ...
Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday said that Indian Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s knowledge about the neighbouring country was “very limited”, Dhaka-based daily Prothom Alo reported. Momen made the comment when asked about Shah’s recent remark in an interview that poor people from Bangladesh infiltrated India because they do not get food in their home country.
“There are many wise people in the world who do not see even after looking, and do not understand, even after knowing,” Momen told Prothom Alo. “But if he [Shah] has said something like that, I would say his knowledge about Bangladesh is very limited. No one dies of hunger in our country now. There is no ‘monga’ either.”
“Monga” is a seasonal phenomenon of poverty and hunger that affects people in the northern districts of Bangladesh.
Momen also claimed that Bangladesh was ahead of India on many social indices such as employment and availability of toilets. “Over one lakh people of India work in Bangladesh,” the Bangladesh foreign minister said. “We do not need to go to India.”
Earlier this week, in an interview to Bengali daily Anandabazar Patrika, Shah had said that development had not reached the lower rungs of the border areas of Bangladesh. He was responding to...
