POBNEWS24, Desk report, Dhaka Oct 11, 2024 : This is cordiality. The exchange of greetings between the people of the two countries, standing beside each other in happiness and sadness is the name of brotherhood and sense of development and humanity. India is a tested friend of Bangladesh. Because they were by our side in 1971, an independent-sovereign country called Bangladesh was born. However, to the new generation of students, it is history. For this reason, even though they do not give importance to the year 1971, the people of both countries, especially the elderly people who are full of human qualities, distribute misti among the people of both countries in various religious festivals. Whose behavior was revealed in the no-man’s land of Benapole-Petropole border on Friday.
Ashtami was Durga Puja, the festival of life of Hindu devotees. Indian Immigration (ICP) OC Jayanta Biswas along with his men rushed into the no-man’s land, misty hand. Benapole Checkpost Commander of Bangladesh BGB exchanged good wishes by distributing misty to Subedar Md. Mamun Sikder.
It should be noted that on August 5, 2024, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, resigned in the face of protests by students and fled the country to India. As a result, the cold war started between the two countries.
India has stopped the visa facility it used to provide to Bangladeshis. Due to which the passenger traffic between the two countries naturally comes down to almost zero. Although direct bus services are running between the two countries, train services are completely suspended. But no one can say yet how soon India will re-introduce the visa. Altaf Hossain, a C&F trader in Benapole told this correspondent, “Both countries have to deal with the matter in a tolerant and diplomatic manner so that the trade relations between the two countries are not disrupted. He said that Sheikh Hasina is not the prime minister of Bangladesh now. Now the new government. Now India has to keep in mind that everything will be done in a new way”.
