bangladesh protest

1971: bangladesh liberation war (east pak becomes bangladesh)
awami league govt → sheikh mujibur rehman as pm
reservation introduced: 30% reservation for those who’ve fought the bangladesh war
but 15 august 1975: both him and his fam assassinated
because of this, quotas frozen
sheikh hasina (in london hence saved) and much later joins awami league
first time pm: 1996

2024 elections
awami league wins and S.H’s 5th term
in 1996: tries to bring in reservation
reservation goes to the court
which says 30% reservation cannot be given → brought down to 7%
5% for the next of the kin and 2% for the minorities and transgender folk
but bangladesh situation pretty bad (students protest)
S.H: says that those students were “terrorist” (razakars)
protests intensify
S.H resigns

interim govt
under nobel laurets (m. yunis)
m. yunis brought in grameen banks and grameen phones
considered a pioneer in micro credit
2006: nobel peace prize

india and bangladesh
- largest trading partner
- 1972: treaty for peace and friendship (indira-mujib treaty)
- land boundary agreement (2015) → via the 100th consitutional amendment act (111 enclaves given and 51 taken) → signed in 1974 and ratified in 2015
- ganga river sharing treaty (1996)
- teesta river water dispute (india building a dam ; bangladesh objects) → 1983
- CORPAT and SAMPRITI (army) → exercises between india and bangladesh
- BONGO SAGAR (navy) → also an exercise
- india (along with russia) is making a nuclear plant in bangladehs → roppur nuclear power plant
- 4096.7 km