India-Bangladesh Border Politics: BJP's New Eastern Strategy is among the main developments being tracked today. As BJP governments in Assam and West Bengal intensify anti-immigration measures, border politics is increasingly shaping India-Bangladesh relations.
“Run quickly, or the government will do what needs to be done,” was his warning to Bangladeshi settlers days after taking oath.
On most nights, a handful of people are driven to a quiet and unfenced stretch of India-Bangladesh boundary and walked across in the dark when the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) is not standing watch.
This sounds like a leak from an intelligence file, but this is more or less what Himanta Biswa Sarma, Chief Minister of Assam, described in an interview about illegal immigrants.
Handing suspected undocumented Bangladeshis back through the Ministry of External Affairs is slow and uncertain, he explained, because Dhaka does not readily accept them and there is no functioning extradition arrangement for such cases.
So, the state waits for nightfall and, in his own phrase, takes them to a convenient place and practically pushes them across.
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