Dhaka, April 26 -- The main opposition party, BNP, blamed the Awami League government for destructive climate change and severe heat waves in Bangladesh.
The party leaders alleged this government's' subservient policy towards India' is liable for desertification and severe heatwaves.
"India's one sided water withdrawal through Farrakka barrage are making Bangladesh desert gradually.
The ongoing severe heatwave is a result of that desertification," BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas said while distributing water bottles, saline, and awareness leaflets among the people in the capital organised by the Ziaur Rahman Foundation.
Mirza Abbas also alleged that the ruling party men grabbed all cannels and wetlands in and surrounding Dhaka...