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WEBCAST: Bangladesh Elections & What They Meanhttp://www.sajaforum.org/2009/01/webcast-bangladesh.html
* Syeed Ahamed, senior research associate, Center for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh
* Steve Herman, South Asia bureau chief, VOA, who covered the elections
* Sara Hossain, a lawyer in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, practicing in the areas of public interest and human rights law. she is on the board of ASK, a national human rights organisation
* Sheridan Prasso, Asia Society associate fellow – just returned from Bangladesh
* Prof. Ali Riaz, chair in the Department of Government & Politics at Illinois State University
* Asif Saleh, is the executive director of Drishtipat, a Bangladesh human rights organization
SAJA hosts a webcast on what the elections mean on Monday, Jan. 5, 2009, Noon-1 pm ET (11 pm-midnight Dhaka time).
Please post your questions in the comments section below or e-mail saja[at]columbia.edu
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Monday, Jan. 5, 2009
noon-1 pm NY time, 11-midnight Dhaka time
See local time: http://snurl.com/9h06n
Listen live or to a recording:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2009/01/05/Bangladesh-Elections-and-What-they-Mean
(you can go and set an e-mail reminder for yourself)
or listen live via your phone by dialing this NYC number +1-347-324-5991
1. What would be the future of India-Bangladesh relation? Will it enhance trade flows between two countries? Will it lead to greater flow of Bangladeshi exports to India? How about aligning economic policies in two countries so that Bangladesh can take benifit from one of the fastest growing economies in Asia? Regarding the phenomena of South-South Migration – how do these countries plan to improve the migration of people across boarder and at the same time contain terrorism?
2. Will this election repair the relation between India-Bangladesh and take it a permenently a rational level? E.g. issues like water sharing, transit could be resolved?
3. Policy co-ordination in social sectors – joint effort on tackling poverty, creating conducive envioronment for minorties to invest in human capital.
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Unity is Strength
1.Being an Indian Bangla bhasi, I want India shall share water with Bangladesh in such a way that Bangladesh shall be benefited. Even share for West Bengal goes less, India should sacrifice her own benefit. This will help making very much for both country’s good relation. Indian diplomacy should understand this.
2. Responsibility to control boarder transit shall be on both country honestly. No illegal infiltration shall be allowed.
3. Availability of Visa should be make easier and sooner. The immigration department should be more alert in case of stay after visa expiry.
4. Two countries should be connected via railway transport but smugling shall be controlled in strong hands .
5. Industrial development and growth between two counties should be like symbiosis.
6. India should give her monetary and technology assistance to Bangladesh
7. Bangladesh should assist India to de-rail the Anti Indian terrorists group in Bangladesh.She should assist India not giving the shelter to ULFA and as such separatists
8. Bangladesh should not morally and financially support and assist directly and indirectly to the terrorists organization inside India and out side India and also should not morally support to those countries which are always inspiring and financing separatists movement in side India and always helping comminting terrorists attack to India .
9. India should sanction financial aid to more numbers of Bangladeshi students in engineering and in Information Technology who want to study in India.
10. Bangladesh should give legally equal right and privilege to the minorities in Bangladesh as India’s secular constitution gives to all her citizen of India irrespective of religions. Bangladesh should ammend the laws in her constitution which goes against the rights of her minorities.
11. India Bangladesh cultural solidarity shall be officially promoted by both the neighbour. Bangladesh shall not morally support to those organizatons ( along with the ‘fake’ Mollahas ) who are killing people by the name of God and diverting the Muslim youngsters from the concern of developing their countries industrially and financially to the path of terrorism and destrying the image of the religion.
12. Both the neighbour should jointly work to protect the environment
Please add your own view points and plesae come together to make our brotherhood more solid and strong.
Sentu Tikadar
Kolkata & Malaysia
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