BNP is going to hold a press conference here on Tuesday on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s upcoming India visit.

‘Tomorrow (Tuesday), we’ll talk on the Prime Minister’s scheduled India visit,’ said BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told a press conference on Monday.

He said the press meet will be held at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office at 4:00pm.

Earlier on Sunday night, BNP standing committee members had a meeting at BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office where they elaborately discussed the PM’s upcoming India tour along with some other issues.

From the press conference, party sources said, BNP will urge the Prime Minister not to sign defence or any other deal that goes against the country’s interests.

It will also call upon the Prime Minister to take proper steps for ensuring the country’s fair share of water of Teesta and other common rivers and resolve the outstanding problems through talks with India during her tour.

The party will also urge Hasina to raise the issue of border killing and bring it down to zero level through discussions with the Indian authorities.

BNP may warn the government that it will take to the streets with people if any anti-state deal is signed during the PM’s visit.

Preferring not to be named, a BNP standing committee member who joined Sunday’s meeting said the party policymakers decided to announce action programmes if the Prime Minister sign any deal with India ignoring the country’s interests.

He also said the standing committee members suggested the party chief to take to the streets with different issues relating to public interests.

The policymakers also advocated for competing the party’s overhauling process by a month to take tougher programmes against the government’s ‘misdeeds’, the BNP leader added.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to undertake a state visit from April 07-10 at the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Sources at the Foreign Ministry said Bangladesh and India have taken necessary preparations to sign ‘more or less 30 deals and MoUs’ during the Prime Minister’s tour.

Hasina will hold an official talk with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in New Delhi on April 8.

Amid the speculation that Hasina may sign a defence deal or MoU with India, BNP has long been saying that the country’s people will not accept such a deal as it may put the country’s independence and sovereignty at stake.