Dhaka, Oct. 25 -- Opposition Chief Whip and National Citizen Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam on Sunday accused the government of striking a secret deal with India to destabilise the country's hill regions.

"The BNP came to power by striking a deal with India. Now it is destabilising the hills in the same way," Nahid said at a public outreach programme in Mirpur-10 in the afternoon.

Nahid alleged that BNP is maintaining a clandestine relationship with India, which he said is fuelling unrest in the hills and killing people along the border to put pressure on Bangladesh.

"Whenever India wants to pressurise Bangladesh, it creates unrest through hill separatists, shoots people dead at the border, or else opens the sluice gates of some rive...