People staged a demonstration in Goainghat Wednesday opposing a joint survey along the border with India disregarding existing boundary pillars.
Hundreds of protesters from nearby villages gathered at the frontier upazila town in the district of Sylhet to form a human chain opposing the land survey along the Sylhet-Meghalaya border by a joint Bangladesh-India team.
Later, speakers told a rally that the joint survey was designed to handover several hundred acres of land to the neighbouring country.
They said that for its weak-kneed foreign policy the Awami League led government was failing to protect the country's interest along Sylhet's border with Meghalaya, a north-east Indian province.
They said the government's foreign policy was making Bangladesh subservient to India.
They called for people's resistance against handing over several hundred acres of Bangladesh territory in Sylhet to India.
They said that people in Companiganj, Goainghat, Jaintapur, Kanaighat and Jakiganj would resist any bid for such hand over of Bangladesh land.
Source : New Age
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