Thread by @pratimbose

The consolidation of anti-#India protests, fuelled by brutal killing of an engineering student, over a silly water share agreement and now a clash between BGB & BSF indicate potential political turmoil in #Bangladesh.
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BSF/BGB became history as two countries came closer over the last 10 years. At a time when two govts signing defence cooperation pacts BGB's offensive raises many questions. More so, due 2 #Bangladesh #Army's general influence over BGB. 2/n
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The incident took place in the backdrop of swelling of protests over #Feni river sharing pact. Feni is a small river dividing #Bangladesh and #india's #Tripura state. People of Tripura were already using river water. An interim pact regulated it. 3/n

#Bangladeshi didnt fund much fault with the pact. But protests fuelled citing delay in #Teesta pact. Soon the protests took wholesome anti-#India nature. The aim was to unsettle #Hasina who had own last election without much Opposition. 4/n

With #BGB incident, one may find a design in creating widespread unrest to encourage Bangladesh #Army to step in. The statement of BGB post incident and pattern of news appearing in #Bangladeshi #digital #mediation is worrisome. 5/n

Clearly the fundamentalist section in #Bangladesh are trying to consolidate. In the absence of mainstream political forces, they may look for subversive attempts. P