Razak alleged that the BNP was 'playing politics' on the issue.

'The BNP chief whip met me for inclusion of their MPs but they are not providing the names, so I don't know whether BNP members will be inducted in the team,' Razak was quoted as saying by the New Age newspaper.

Besides Razaq, the team so far includes A.B.M. Ruhul Amin Hawlader MP (JP), Abdur Rahman MP (AL), A.K.M. Fazlul Haq MP (AL), A.B.M. Anwarul Haq MP (AL), Hamidur Rahman Azad (Jamaat), Monwar Hossain of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Sajjad Hossain of the Bangladesh-India Joint Rivers Commission, the water resources ministry's secretary and a director general in the foreign ministry.

India says the project is aimed at generating power and would not divert or hold up water from the river.

Some groups in India's Manipur are also opposed to the project saying the dam would displace thousands of people.

Barak river supplies water to two rivers in Bangladesh, the Surma and Kushiara, the main sources of water to hundreds of water bodies in the greater Sylhet region and which in turn feed the mighty River Jamuna.

Opposition parties and environmentalists here are against the Indian project located 200 km upstream of Bangladesh as they allege that it poses threats to climate, ecology, biodiversity, agriculture, fisheries, drinking water supply and the livelihood of more than a third of all Bangladeshis.