Opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia’s weeklong India visit now dominating of Bangladesh power politics game. Wiping out the interim Caretaker Government system from constitution the ruling AL government closed all doors to peaceful transition of power. It is feared that bloodshed is a must in future. In this cloudy situation BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party)’ manage game politics brought some hope. Although BNP was involved to come power managing foreign masters instead of taking people support since long ago. They are not agree to face the ferocious government. Even they are not ready to capitalise the unpopularity of the government. The entire last four years they were ingaged in manage game. As a result now the control of Bangladesh’s power politics lies in foreign masters. Many saying India is now needed to peaceful transition of power in Bangladesh.

It is assumed that if election took place free and fair environment BNP would come in power. But there is no scope of it. So manage game is the only way remaining for BNP. And what is the manage game ? To be B team of India to come in power. Begum Zia’s India visit made it crystal clear. Temporarily it may escape Bangladesh from bloodshed but in long term it will harm the democratic struggle of Bangladeshi people.

As ruling AL government popularity dwindling in rocket speed India’s intelligence predicted Begum Zia is the next prime minister of Bangladesh. Newspapers also made headline about it sourcing India’s intelligence. Warm reception received Begum Zia from Indian side also reflected it.

Lets see how Bangladeshi newspapers portrayed Begum Zias manage game visit. Tuesday, October 30, The Daily Star made headline “No place for insurgents” Khaleda tells Manmohan BNP won't allow use of Bangladesh land for terrorist activities against India.

Pallab Bhattacharya, The Daily Star’s New Delhi correspondent wrote –
Seeking to address India's security concerns, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday assured Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that neither she nor her party would allow terrorists and separatists to use Bangladesh territory to harm India's interests.
Manmohan, in turn, assured Bangladesh's leader of the opposition that India will put in place every mechanism to bring down the incidents of border killings to zero.
The two leaders gave the assurances at a nearly hour-long meeting at Manmohan's official residence in New Delhi. The meeting was followed by a lunch the Indian prime minister hosted in honour of the BNP chairperson.

The BNP has always been known for its anti-India stance, and it concerns New Delhi that anti-India insurgents get shelter and support in Bangladesh with this party in office, BBC Bangla adds. Analysts say Khaleda's assurance at the meeting could be an indication of change in her anti-india policy.
Responding to Khaleda's concern over border killings by BSF, Manmohan told her that he doesn't condone a single death at the border and India will put in place every possible mechanism to ensure that there is not a single death, BNP Vice Chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury said at a media briefing at Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi.

Khaleda is on a week-long India visit following an invitation from the Indian government. The BNP chief said even a single border killing can have negative impact on India-Bangladesh relations.
Senior BJP leader LK Advani was among those who were present at the lunch hosted by the Indian prime minister, along with India's new External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, and two new junior ministers from West Bengal Abu Hashem Khan Chowdhury and Deepa Dasmunshi.
According to senior BNP leader Tariqul Islam, the BNP chairperson said she wanted a "new era" to begin in Bangladesh's relations with India.
Khaleda conveyed to Manmohan that Bangladesh would never be allowed to be a happy hunting ground for terrorists, said Tariqul.

"Begum Zia assured Prime Minister Singh that she or BNP will never allow the territory of Bangladesh to be used for any activities to harm India or do anything which is against India's security," said Mobin, who was present in the meeting between the two leaders.
Expressing her desire to work with India to combat terrorism, Khaleda said there is enough comprehensive mechanism under the Saarc to combat terror and "we must make full use of it".
Manmohan thanked Khaleda for her assurances, and said he has every reason to believe her and that they have a solid foundation to work on, Mobin told the briefing.

Wednesday, October 31, The same newspaper’s headline was `Deep-sea Port at Sonadia, Khaleda backs India-China consortium. Says Bangladesh-India connectivity inevitable, BNP not to look back on ties with India`
The report says-In a shift in her party's stand, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday warmed up to connectivity with India and New Delhi's participation in a consortium with China to build a deep-sea port at Sonadia in Mongla.
During a 45-minute meeting with India's new Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid at the Hyderabad House here yesterday afternoon, Khaleda told him that connectivity between Bangladesh and India was "inevitable" and the same must be expanded to include China and South East Asia.
In the past, the BNP had opposed granting transit facility to India to connect with its landlocked northeastern states with the mainland.
After Khaleda's meeting with Khurshid and earlier with Indian National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon who called on her at her hotel in New Delhi, BNP Vice-chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury told the media that Menon raised the issue of Bangladesh's proposal for a deep-sea port at Sonadia and expressed India's interest in the project.

Khaleda welcomed the idea for a consortium including India, China and other countries undertaking the Sonadia deep-sea port because of the huge amount of investment needed for it and said it would benefit Bangladesh, India, China and Thailand.
Mobin said Khaleda had taken up the deep-sea port issue with top Chinese leaders when she visited that country in the third week of October and Beijing was receptive to India's participation in the consortium.
India has already expressed keenness to join the proposed Sonadia deep-sea port project and sought details and data about it, Mobin added.
Asked if the BNP has made a tacit admission by assuring India that the party would not allow Bangladesh territory to be used by terrorists to target India, Khaleda's Press Secretary Sohel Maruf Kamal said, "Let us not look back at the era of proven and unproved allegations and counter-allegations and instead look ahead."

In the past, BNP had been in a denial mode about the problem of cross-border illegal migration and presence of militants in Bangladesh.
During her meetings with the Indian leaders, Khaleda signalled her intention to break from BNP's anti-India stance in the past.
Mobin and another senior BNP leader Tariqul Islam said Khaleda gave a clear message to the Indian leaders that the BNP "does not want to look back but want to look ahead and build a new era in relations between the two countries."
At a separate media briefing, the spokesperson of Indian external affairs ministry said Khaleda's message during her interaction with the Indian leaders was that "this marks a new beginning and let's not look back in the rear view mirror."

Maruf Kamal said the main purpose of the visit was to dispel mistrust and suspicion and restore the trust between the BNP and India and claimed "we have been able to achieve the objective" by this visit.
Tariqul Islam said, "We wanted to remove suspicion and bring a new dawn in relations with India."
On Friday, November 2, The Daily Star published a report titled `It was a 'mistake'
Rashidul Hasan wrote- Realising that its long-held “anti-India” stance was a mistake, the BNP appears to be making a turnaround in its policy towards the big neighbour, party insiders say.
On a visit to India, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has clearly signalled that she wants to reverse the stance on relations with New Delhi. She has assured Indian leaders that her party would not allow Bangladesh territory to be used by terrorists and insurgents to target India.

Political analysts say that after benefiting from its anti-India polemics over the years, the BNP is shifting its strategy because of the changing socio-economic and political conditions at the national, regional and global level.
According to some top BNP leaders, the growing realisation that the party had to pay much for its anti-India strategy and that India is now a big factor in regional and international politics is the reason behind this shift.

Talking to The Daily Star on Wednesday, former foreign minister M Morshed Khan said the relations between the BNP and India could not grow to an expected level due to “politics of blame game”.
“And madam's visit certainly marks a change in her mindset regarding India.”
He also said that it would be foolish to bank on anti-India politics just to please the country's people, as they very well understand the importance of good relations with India.

“Those days of anti-India politics are gone and it would be a mistake if anyone still maintains that stance.”
Speaking to this correspondent, at least three BNP leaders said that two allies -- Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Oikya Jote -- some BNP policymakers and close aides to the chairperson had convinced Khaleda to take the anti-India position.
The party made various mistakes regarding relations with India, Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman, a BNP standing committee member, told The Daily Star at his Banani DOHS residence on Tuesday.
“The party had been pursuing wrong policies, especially from 2001, when it made a political alliance with the Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Oikya Jote.”
The former army chief said, “The BNP's new stance on India reflects the changed mindset of the party chairperson as well as her realisation to this end.”
“The two Islamist parties [Jamaat and IOJ] had Islamised the BNP-led four-party alliance and with the support of a section of BNP policymakers, they convinced the chairperson to follow an anti-India stance to exploit popular sentiment against India.”
He said the party chief after long years had understood that the anti-India stance would not do her party any good.

“Many of us had earlier tried to make the party chief realise the matter but failed as our opposition in the party and in the alliance was more powerful and the party chief had no alternative but to listen to the powerful lobby.
“Although it was not on the agenda, some of the policymakers, including myself, at several meetings called upon the party chairperson to shed the anti-India stance,” Mahbubur recalled. He declined to go into details.

He said his relations with the party had certainly deteriorated over the 10-truck arms haul during the past BNP-Jamaat rule in 2004. India widely considered that the arms cache had been brought in for some Indian separatist organisations.
Besides, the BNP's ties with the world's largest democracy deteriorated further after the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in 2004.
“And there were BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman's various controversial activities when the party was in power in 2001-06,” he said.
“BNP policymakers now realise that the party has to be sincere to resolve all unresolved bilateral problems with India when it takes office.”
However, he added, “It's also true that the BNP had not seen a cordial attitude from India either till 2010.”
According to party insiders, the former army chief along with senior leaders Tariqul Islam, Moudud Ahmed, M Morshed Khan and Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury are among those who played a vital role to “repair” the party's relations with India.

Before Khaleda's New Delhi visit this week, M Morshed Khan toured India twice to do the groundwork to this end. Even Mosaddek Ali Falu, a close aide to Khaleda, had gone to India for the same purpose, BNP sources said.
Talking to this correspondent at his Mohakhali office on Wednesday, Morshed Khan admitted he had visited India for seven days from October 9. But, he said, it was a personal visit and it had nothing to do with the visit of Khaleda Zia.
Also, Indian President Pranab Mukherjee played a vital role in changing his country's stance on relations with the main opposition party of Bangladesh.
“We have got a clear signal of its changed mindset when Pranab Babu categorically mentioned that his country wanted to maintain good relations with all democratic parties of Bangladesh and the people of Bangladesh, not with any particular party,” said BNP standing committee member Moudud Ahmed.
He added this was for the first time any Indian prime minister had invited Khaleda Zia when she was in opposition.

“We have to accept that we have to have good relations with India to resolve all outstanding issues with the largest and powerful neighbour.”
Another BNP policymaker, seeking anonymity, said the party and its allies had used “indecent” language against India on several occasions, especially when the party was in opposition. This attitude breached Indian trust and confidence in the BNP.
On Saturday, October 3 All newspapers Published the news on US-Bangladeshi gets 17-yr jail for terror plot.
The New Age published the Reuters, Boston, USA report. It said- A Massachusetts man was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday for a plot to attack the Pentagon and the US Capitol building in Washington with explosives loaded into remote-control model airplanes.
Rezwan Ferdaus, who was arrested in September 2011 and pleaded guilty in July to terrorism-related charges in a deal with prosecutors, told the court he has devoted a lot of time to self-reflection while in jail awaiting sentencing and that he accepted his fate.
He was arrested after an FBI sting operation in which he requested and took delivery of plastic explosives, three grenades and six
assault rifles from undercover FBI agents who he believed were members of the al Qaeda network.
Ferdaus, 26, born in Massachusetts to parents of Bangladeshi descent, is a physics graduate of Northeastern University in Boston.
‘I, the other, the uniquely dressed, the lone man in these hours, I speak of humanity,’ Ferdaus told the court, reading from a two-page, sometimes flowery statement. ‘No dehumanisation can serve as justification for inhumanity in other places.’

About two dozen members of his family and friends cheered and said, ‘We love you, we support you,’ as the Massachusetts-born Ferdaus was led into court, handcuffed, with close-cropped hair and a beard.
The 17-year sentence, which also includes 10 years of supervised release, was the result of a July plea agreement worked out between his attorneys and prosecutors. Ferdaus pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to destroy and damage a federal building and attempting to provide material support to terrorists.
Prosecutors dropped four other counts that could have raised the total possible sentence to 35 years.
Members of his family wept and embraced outside the courtroom after Ferdaus was led away.
‘My son is innocent,’ his mother, Ana Maria Ferdaus, told reporters outside court. ‘We are the best family that America will ever have.’
Before approving the sentence, Judge Richard Stearns told Ferdaus that he was impressed by his self-reflection.

‘You don’t need any lecture from me. Your statement convinces me that you have the character and the capacity to search your own soul,’ Stearns said. ‘I’m going to leave it to you to finish that journey.’
Ferdaus’ attorney, Miriam Conrad, told reporters after the hearing that her client had shown no interest in terrorism before FBI investigators approached him.
‘There was no evidence ever produced that Mr. Ferdaus sought out contact with any outside groups before the government became involved or even after the government became involved,’ Conrad said.
Assistant US Attorney Jack Pirozzolo disagreed.
‘He was a person who decided that he wanted to become a terrorist,’ Pirozzolo said, adding that before the FBI investigation began, Ferdaus had tried to obtain weapons illegally from an area gun shop and performed surveillance on a train station in his hometown of Ashland, Massachusetts.

‘Those events predated the undercover operation that unfolded here,’ Pirozzolo said.
Ferdaus planned to carry out the attacks on the Pentagon, located in Arlington, Virginia, and the Capitol using a scale model of a US Navy F-86 Saber fighter jet about the size of a picnic table, which he kept in a storage locker in suburban Boston, authorities said.
Authorities said the public was never in danger from the explosives, which they said were always under the control of federal officials.
The government had alleged that Ferdaus, who is Muslim, told undercover agents of his plans to commit acts of violence against the United States by ‘decapitating’ its ‘military center’ and killing ‘kafirs,’ an Arabic term meaning non-believers.
In 2010, while already under surveillance, Ferdaus allegedly supplied 12 mobile phones rigged as electrical switches for improvised explosive devices to FBI agents.