India have enough land , then why they want more land from Bangladesh ?
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Bangladesh's home minister on Friday expressed his dismay at a report that India had requested Dhaka for a piece of land to expand an airport near its eastern border.
“There is no question of giving them our territory,” Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told Anadolu Agency over phone.
Kamal was responding to a question about a local media report that New Delhi "has proposed to expand its Agartala Airport into the Bangladesh territory in Brahmanbaria for an upgrade".
The location of the airport is only 100 kilometers (62 miles) east of Bangladeshi capital Dhaka and located less than a kilometer off the border line.
Local daily New Age reported on Thursday that India has made the proposal "at several meetings in the past one year". Bangladesh's foreign secretary also confirmed the discussion indicating that officials in the meeting were tilted in favor of India, the daily reported.
Kamal, however, said they have not received any written proposal from India yet.
“But why do they use our land? They can use their own land for this expansion,” he said, pointing out that India has enough land in its own territory around the airport to expand it.
The report further added that Foreign Ministry officials of Bangladesh held a meeting in October last year "with other relevant ministries and intelligence agencies to examine whether or how Dhaka could share its land with India" for the expansion of Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport [previously known as Agartala Airport] in northeastern Tripura state.