In 1960 India started to make two barrages in Farraka and another one in Sindu river of Pakistan. Pakistan President Ayub Khan strongly protest against this and took the issue to international court and force India to negotiate with Pakistan and on that negotiation Ayub Khan successfully stop India to make barrage in Shidhu river but took no initiative to stop Farrakka barrage.

This Ayub Khan is the main culprit of Farrakka barrage. He was very serious about Shidhu barrage but not for Farrakka. This was actually part of Paki politics because in East Pakistan secular political party were very strong and his plan was successful because on the issue of Farrakka there would be an anti Indian sentiment would arise that would be the main support of Muslim league. So Ayub Khan intentionally allowed India to construct this barrage. The way last AL govt made an accord with India in the same way Zia or BNP able to make an accord with India. Another very Important information after liberation when India like to open the barrage the AL govt allow them to open on the condition to supply of 44 lac q-sec water per day.

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This work is directly against the interest of Bangladesh done by Mujib is not servant of India then what was this? AL govt in power that time India had blocked water by Farakka to Bangladesh. Now just think who sell the right of Bangladesh to India. In very bad condition last AL govt made the 30 years accord.

HISTORY OF FARAKKA:

Both of Pakistan and India is our enemy due to their activities. However, at the root of the conflict was the Pakistani feeling that the Indian government was insensitive to the difficulties that might be caused by large diversions from the Ganges. The basic problem was that during the dry season, the Ganges had an insufficient amount of water to be supplying both India and Pakistan - a fact which India refused to admit. Between 1961 and 1970, Pakistan approached India to hold talks; firstly, to pressurize them to give up the barrage and when that failed, to have the right to be involved in deciding how much water was to be diverted.

By 1970, after continued failed talks, Pakistan resorted to threatening India with a plan to build its own barrage to account for the missing water that would be diverted by India. As Pakistan had hoped, India had no interest in a counter-barrage that might threaten the existence of the one that had just been completed (costing US $240 million), so Pakistan was assured it would be involved in discussions on the amount of the diversion. However these talks were never held because in 1971, the struggle for independence began. Between the years of 1972 and 1975 very little was achieved in terms of negotiations for Bangladesh. Sk. Mujib agreed to India's proposal for test operation of the barrage and feeder canal. Initially in 1975 India was allowed to divert flows varying from 11000 cusec to 16000 cusec for a period of 41 days from 21 April to 31 May '75.

Between 1975 and 1976, India was continuing to withdraw almost the maximum amount of water allowed by the project. During 1975, the Bangladesh government was preoccupied with it's own internal politics and was busy dealing with the instability of coups and counter-coup attempts. By early 1976, Bangladesh had publicly protested that India was in breach of the agreement and that their continued withdrawals were seriously harming Bangladesh. After an organized and peaceful march of up to 500, 000 Bangladeshis in protest against the barrage - which stopped 6 miles short of the Indian border. Bangladesh after failing in attempts to resolve this issue peacefully and amicably Bangladesh raised the issue of Ganges water sharing in the UN General Assembly session in 1976.

Confronting adverse international opinion India had to sign an ad hoc agreement for 5 yrs on Ganges water sharing in 1977 where she had agree to the just share of Bangladesh on the available flow and to increase the flow at Farakka through augmentation to meet the increasing demand of water of both Bangladesh and India. India also agrees to include Nepal for finding long term solution to the problem.

During the period from 1978 to 82 Bangladesh received more than its share for all the years excepting one when the flow at Farakka fall unexpectedly but the India released the guaranteed minimum flow. 1977 agreement was expired in 1982 and India denied extending it. The then military ruler Gen. Ershad success bed to the Indian pressure and signed a MOU scrapping the 1977 agreement where the interest of Bangladesh was compromised and the guarantee clause was excluded. MOU signed in 1982 was expired in 1985 and extended to 1988 through two other similar extensions. From 1989 onward India refused to come to any deal with the Bangladesh on Ganges water sharing. No treaty or agreement existed till 1996 during which the average low flow has come down to 10,000 to 12,000 cusec with one extreme event of 9000 cusec.

During the period of the last democratically elected Govt. of Bangladesh Begum Khaleda Zia tried her best with her counterpart Indian Prime Minister Narashima Rao to reach a just solution to the Ganges water sharing, India fully avoided reaching any agreement with the Govt. Bangladesh again raised the issue in the UN General Assembly but to no effect. Because our opposition leader Sk. Hasina declared “আমরা এই সরকারকে এক সেকেন্ডের জন্যেও শান্তিতে থাকতে দেবনা”!!!

We know BAL’s anti Bangladesh activities very well. We know BAL can do anything to get the power and for their Masters. It is not difficult to understand, It was linked between BAL and Indian government to create problems as much as possible to our country. BAL got the power in June 1996 and they signed agreement within few months!!!. The agreement of 1977 was based on data of 1948 to 1973 and the agreement of 1996 was based on 1949 to 1988. So the quantity can be more or less. Ziaur Rahman has constructed a base and now whatever you are doing is on that base. It is easy work to put something in a basket which has bottom but it was very difficult to repair a bottomless basket. Ziaur Rahman establishes Nationalism in Bangladesh to bring all peoples under one Umbrella regardless of Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Christian or Bangali and Pahari. He didn’t spoken to anybody “তরা সব বাঙ্গালী হইয়া যা”।

Sk. Hasina did not get any mandate from the people of Bangladesh. She got mandate from that Mir Jaafar Moin U. Ahmed now slowly coming into light. During his (Moin U. Ahmed) visit to India he was given four horses as presentation and he was sold to India and Sk. Hasina by getting crores of money deposited in his foreign bank account. In Pakistan what we have seen, army used to control and rule over Pakistan by imposing martial law and used to come directly in the forefront but here Moin U. Ahmed followed another tactics of ruling our country by undeclared martial law through Sk. Hasina and played a hide and seek game.

Another thing what we have noticed during Pakistan time Pakistan army did not allow the students to come out in the street every now than and tried to control the students in all possible way they can. But here Moin U. Ahmed doesn’t like to disturb the students at all. That is why the two Joy Bangla group(two Chatra League group) are fighting with each other to take control of different places, as if Bangladesh now owned by them and they are the whole and sole authority of Bangladesh. To whom Charley Chaplin of BAL, that lunatic Farouk Khan will blame now as he used to see everywhere JMB Jungi and Jamaat involvement. Where Chatra League two groups are fighting with each other for tenderbaazi and chandabaazi, they used to say infiltration of Chatradal, and where BDR mutiny happened and investigation report gave the clue of involvement of their few BAL leaders like Mirza Azam, Fazle Nur Taposh, Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, Torab Ali, Jahangir Kabir Nanok including Sick Hasina herself in association with Dada Pronob Mukharjee and many others, that Farouk Khan discovered involvement of Jamaat and JMB group.

As soon as Awami League came to occupy the seat of government in Dhaka, a plot was hatched with Indian complicity to teach the BD Army a lesson and this Farouk Khan knowing the facts very well intentionally tried to divert the attention of the whole country by putting the blame over BNP and Jamaat everywhere, wherever he likes. Now BAL is thinking again after Sk. Hasina’s turn and tenure is finished to bring Sick Reahana in power and in this way will continue to bring Joy, Putul and so on - all sick family one by one producing a Sheikhdom in our Bangladesh making our country a "Pagoler Addakhana".