‘Break up Bangladesh,’ says Pradyot joining Sarma, Sanyal in slamming Yunus for ‘landlocked’ remarks
New Delhi: India needs to “break up Bangladesh” to gain access to the Chittagong sea port, Pradyot Kishore Debbarma, the founder of BJP’s coalition partner in Tripura TIPRA Motha party, said Tuesday, joining the growing chorus against Bangladesh chief adviser Muhammad Yunus’s remarks on India’s “landlocked” Northeastern states.
Addressing a ‘High-level Roundtable on Sustainable Infrastructure and Energy’ in Beijing on 28 March, Yunus said that Bangladesh is the “only guardian of the ocean” in the region due to the landlocked nature of India’s Northeast. A two-minute-nineteen-second video clip of his speech was uploaded on Yunus’s official social media accounts.
“Seven states of India, eastern part of India, called seven sisters. They are a landlocked region of India. They have no way to re...
