Hilsa diplomacy again as Hasina set to go to India
3 min readExpress News Service
NEW DELHI: Hilsa diplomacy will proceed with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s upcoming go to to Delhi, which is more likely to start on September 5. Fish merchants in Bangladesh are hoping to get a clearance to export Hilsa to India throughout the upcoming Durga Puja celebrations and Hasina’s go to might assist them.
“Durga Puja begins in October this 12 months and greater than two dozen exporters have submitted functions to the Ministry of Commerce in Dhaka to allow them to export Hilsa to India effectively earlier than the pageant begins,’’ say sources, including that Bangladeshi merchants have been promoting Hilsa in India for the previous three years.
Bangladesh is the biggest producer of Hilsa and makes good revenue by way of exports to India. Earlier this 12 months, chief minister of West Bengal Mamta Banerjee had requested visiting Bangladesh’s Minister of Commerce, Tipu Munshi, to request Sheikh Hasina to ship Hilsa to India throughout the pageant season.
PM Hasina has used Hilsa diplomacy to bridge ties between the 2 nations. Her first present of Hilsa was to Chief Minister Jyoti Basu in 1996 – earlier than the signing of the Ganga water sharing treaty between India and Bangladesh.
Later in 2010, PM Hasina bought Hilsa for Mamta Banerjee when she was the Railways Minister.
In 2016, when Mamta Banerjee took oath as Chief Minister, PM Hasina despatched her 20 kg of Hilsa. In 2017, PM Hasina took 20kg Hilsa and different items for President Pranab Mukherjee, who was anticipated to interrupt the stalemate over Teesta water problem.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh which had saved a ban on Hilsa (their nationwide fish) since August 2012, lifted the ban in 2019 for exports to India for Durga puja as a goodwill gesture.
NEW DELHI: Hilsa diplomacy will proceed with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s upcoming go to to Delhi, which is more likely to start on September 5. Fish merchants in Bangladesh are hoping to get a clearance to export Hilsa to India throughout the upcoming Durga Puja celebrations and Hasina’s go to might assist them.
“Durga Puja begins in October this 12 months and greater than two dozen exporters have submitted functions to the Ministry of Commerce in Dhaka to allow them to export Hilsa to India effectively earlier than the pageant begins,’’ say sources, including that Bangladeshi merchants have been promoting Hilsa in India for the previous three years.
Bangladesh is the biggest producer of Hilsa and makes good revenue by way of exports to India. Earlier this 12 months, chief minister of West Bengal Mamta Banerjee had requested visiting Bangladesh’s Minister of Commerce, Tipu Munshi, to request Sheikh Hasina to ship Hilsa to India throughout the pageant season.
PM Hasina has used Hilsa diplomacy to bridge ties between the 2 nations. Her first present of Hilsa was to Chief Minister Jyoti Basu in 1996 – earlier than the signing of the Ganga water sharing treaty between India and Bangladesh.
Later in 2010, PM Hasina bought Hilsa for Mamta Banerjee when she was the Railways Minister.
In 2016, when Mamta Banerjee took oath as Chief Minister, PM Hasina despatched her 20 kg of Hilsa. In 2017, PM Hasina took 20kg Hilsa and different items for President Pranab Mukherjee, who was anticipated to interrupt the stalemate over Teesta water problem.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh which had saved a ban on Hilsa (their nationwide fish) since August 2012, lifted the ban in 2019 for exports to India for Durga puja as a goodwill gesture.
