By IANS,
Dhaka : Two Bangladeshi human rights organisations have protested the government’s reported move to hand over more than 150 acres of the country’s territory to India, a media report said.
The Sylhet unit of the Bangladesh Manabadhikar Basthabayan Sangstha (BMBS) submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in this connection.
The Jatiya Manabadhikar Society (JMS) formed a human chain to ask the government to refrain from handing over to India the land on the Padua border in Gowainghat region, the New Age reported Thursday.
The organisations sought immediate intervention by the prime minister to “protect the sovereignty of the country”, the report said.
The JMS said more than 150 acres of Bangladeshi land along the Padua border have reportedly been handed over to India.
Indian authorities in a joint land survey team were demanding that the border be demarcated some 800 metres inside the Bangladeshi territory at Padua, they said.
The organisation criticised the “weak-kneed” foreign policy of the government and urged it to counter any threat against the country’s sovereignty.