Relations with India will now be based on equality, justice: Adviser Asif

LGRD Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan has said the government is moving away from a submissive foreign policy towards India, report UNB. 

Instead, the foundation of bilateral relations between Bangladesh and India will now be based on equality and justice, he said at the closing ceremony of a training workshop in Cumilla on Wednesday.

Bangladesh Rural Development Academy (BRDA) organized the workshop titled "Achieving Sustainable Development Goals: Financial Inclusion & Rural Transformation"

Saif Uddin Ahmed, director general of BRDA, chaired the closing ceremony.

"After the July Uprising, the Interim Government has moved away from a submissive foreign policy with India; the bilateral relations between the two countries will now be built based on equality and justice,” said Asif.

He also expressed strong discontent over the attack at the Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in India’s Agartala, saying that the Interim Government had officially protested over the matter.

The adviser reiterated that national development could be achieved through financial inclusion and rural development. He lauded the event by the LGRD ministry, BRDA, and the African-Asian Rural Development Organization (ARDO), encouraged more such programs, and expressed his optimism that participants would use the knowledge gained to contribute to rural development.