Staff correspondent :<\/p>\n
Road Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said only the country\u2019s people can put the ruling party again in power and no \u2018foreign friend or country\u2019 can do so.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t have foreign lords but friends,\u201d he told reporters at his ministry office at the Secretariat here this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Terming India as a time-tested and trusted friend, Quader said both the neighbouring nations maintain good relations since \u00a0 1971.<\/p>\n
\u201cDelhi needs us from the view of strategic policy and we also need Delhi. \u00a0 India is a very big country\u2026the existing relationship \u00a0between India and Bangladesh will further strengthen in the days to come. For example, now Bangladesh-India trade volume has increased manifold,\u201d Quader said.<\/p>\n
Today Bangladesh became a member of the nuclear electricity club with the support from Russia, the road transport and bridges minister said, adding that on October 23, metro rail from Agargaon to Motijheel is going to be inaugurated.<\/p>\n
With support from Japan, the metro rail project was implemented and another mega project – Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Tunnel – in Chattogram has been implemented with assistance from China, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo our diplomatic policy is friendship to all, malice to none,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Responding to a query, he said better relations with the USA does not mean that they will interfere in Bangladesh elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Staff correspondent : Road Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said only the country\u2019s people can put the ruling party again in power and no \u2018foreign friend or country\u2019 can do so. \u201cWe don\u2019t have foreign lords but friends,\u201d he told reporters at his ministry office at the Secretariat here this afternoon. Terming India as a time-tested and trusted friend, Quader said both the neighbouring nations maintain good relations since \u00a0 1971. \u201cDelhi needs us from the view of strategic policy and we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3250,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions\/3250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}