TOUCH ME NOT!Mamata rejects Hasina request to stay and returns ahead of Modi amidst TEESTA Music! Reliance and Adani got enough to expand their empire! Maggie Massal diplomacy failed to break the ice despite India and Bangladesh signed historic land swap deal, ink 22 agreements!

TOUCH ME NOT!Mamata rejects Hasina request to stay and returns ahead of Modi amidst TEESTA Music!

Reliance and Adani got enough to expand their empire!

Maggie Massal diplomacy failed to break the ice despite India and Bangladesh signed historic land swap deal, ink 22 agreements!

Palash Biswas

Bangladeshi media s reports that Mamata left Dhaka ahead of Modi and she rejected Hasina`s request to stay as she did not want to discuss Teesta which made her unpopular in Bangladesh! 

Maggie Massal diplomacy failed to break the ice despite India and Bangladesh signed historic land swap deal, ink 22 agreements!

However Reliance and Adani got enough to expand their empire!

Bangladesh also inked two MoUs with Adani Power Limited and Reliance Group to set up 4,600 MW power plants in the country.

The deals worth $5.5 billion were inked by Power Development Board of Bangladesh and the Indian companies at the Bidyut Bhaban in Dhaka.

Adani Power is to invest $2.5 billion to set up a coal-based power plant with capacity of 1,600 MW while Reliance Group is to set up an imported Liquefied Natural Gas-based power plant with 3,000 MW capacity at a cost of $3 billion.

The sites for setting up the plants are yet to be decided.

 Well!In a historic move, India and Bangladesh on Saturday ratified an over 40-year-old land border swap agreement and flagged off two new trans-border buses as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina and announced a $2 billion Line of Credit to Dhaka.

Both countries also inked 22 agreements, including renewing a bilateral trade agreement, an agreement on coastal shipping, on using of the Chittagong and Mongla ports, and prevention of smuggling and circulation of fake currency notes.

Media highlighted the maintained distance of the Touch Me Not vote equation game as it is emphasized that the two Indian leaders have not been sharing pleasant relationship and have attacked each other over various issues.

However,PM Modi also mentioned Ms Banerjee in his remarks at the joint press briefing with PM Hasina, saying: "We are privileged to have with us the Chief Minister of West Bengal."

It looks quite amusing that with Ms Banerjee standing by his side, PM Modi also hinted at resolving differences over Teesta and Feni river water sharing issues with the support of state governments.

"I am confident that with the support of state governments in India, we can reach a fair solution on Teesta and Feni Rivers," he said.

Meanwhile,right in her den,Kolkata,

Rahul Gandhi tears into Narendra Modi, Mamata Banerjee; reaches out to jute mill workers!

 Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi Saturday raised questions over the "friendship" between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, joining him in the visit to Bangladesh.

"When our (UPA) government was there, our PM wanted to go to Bangladesh. We spoke to her (Banerjee) and requested her to go with us. She said no, 'ekla chalo re' (will go alone).

"Now, Modiji is there, so no 'ekla chalo re'. We will go together. Why is this happening? What is the friendship about? You must be knowing the reason," he told his party workers in Kolkata.

He was alluding to Banerjee travelling to Dhaka to attend the signing ceremony of the land boundary agreement with Bangladesh in Dhaka today in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his counterpart Sheikh Hasina.

The response,Bangladesh media undreplayed Mamata!

সফর শেষ করে শনিবার রাতে ঢাকা ছেড়েছেন পশ্চিমবঙ্গের মুখ্যমন্ত্রী মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়। সন্ধ্যায় ভারতের প্রধানমন্ত্রী নরেন্দ্র মোদী এবং মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়ের উপস্থিতিতে সাক্ষরিত হয় ঐতিহাসিক স্থলসীমান্ত চুক্তিসহ আরও কয়েকটি চুক্তি। 

 

বাংলাদেশ সফরে এসে তিনি নরেন্দ্র মোদীর সঙ্গে বৈঠক করেন। শনিবার বিকালে হোটেল প্যান প্যাসিফিক সোনারগাঁও হোটেলে এই বৈঠক অনুষ্ঠিত হয়। শুক্রবার রাতে ঢাকা পৌঁছেছিলেন তিনি।

While Modi Media reports the Touch me not episode in detail.West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today amended her itinerary to delay her return from Dhaka by a few more hours after Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina requested her to stay for the state banquet.

Officials said the Bangladeshi premier asked Ms Banerjee, who reached Dhaka last night and was supposed to return by afternoon, to attend the state dinner hosted by PM Hasina in honour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The fiery Trinamool Congress leader had caused embarrassment to the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2011 when she objected to planned Teesta river water sharing deal and dropped out of the primeministerial delegation.

This led to the postponement of the crucial deal, that was set to be inked during the visit, at the last minute.

In a show of bonhomie, Ms Banerjee travelled to the venue of the exchange of instruments of ratification regarding the historic Land Boundary Agreement in PM Modi's limousine.