A Bangladesh Opposition leader has warned against any move to facilitate an Indian transit corridor through the country and called for a fair water-sharing agreement with New Delhi ahead of the expiry of the Ganges treaty in December, according to local media reports.
It was primarily organised to demand the resignation of Bangladesh’s Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed and Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Iqbal Hassan Mahmood Tuku over their alleged failure to maintain law and order and address shortages of gas and electricity.
In the rally, the NCP leader also accused Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s government of seeking to facilitate an Indian transit corridor through the country. “Japan is trying to create a corridor through Bangladesh once again. The government is trying to hand over the illegal corridor to India. Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, we want to say clearly that the people of Bangladesh will not accept any such illegal corridor,” bdnews24 quoted Mr. Nahid as saying. Rahman’s Japan visit. “We made it very clear… no third country reference. “We have a very strong partnership with Japan.
However, Bangladesh’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Humaiun Kobir said on Friday (October 30, 2026) that no third-country issue was discussed during Mr. Meanwhile, India on October 28 said it would further strengthen its partnership with Japan, including initiatives involving the northeastern states, hours after Bangladesh PM Rahman and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi agreed to enhance regional connectivity and signed agreements providing for additional Japanese assistance to Bangladesh’s Matarbari deep-sea port. Because the Bay of Bengal doesn’t belong to us only,” he told reporters, according to Dhaka Tribune, we didn’t go there to discuss the Bay of Bengal.
He also threatened fresh protests if the Ganges water-sharing agreement was not renewed on terms that protected Bangladesh’s share of the river’s waters, according to Bangladeshi newspaper Prothom Alo and the bdnews24 news website. We also have several initiatives involving northeast [India] and Japan, and we would like to further strengthen these linkages,” Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in New Delhi.
