NEW DELHI, April 26 — The Central Government has conceded that infiltration of Bangladeshi nationals belonging to the Hindu community was continuing unabated in spite of checks and control at the international border. The Centre, however, held the terrain and porous nature of the border responsible for the unchecked infiltration. The problem of infiltration of Bangladeshi nationals into India has been endemic and various factors including, economic, cultural and political have contributed to the influx, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, S Reghupathy said in a statement in the Lok Sabha.
The Minister also revealed that the Government does not maintain any data on infiltration from across the country.
In a separate reply, the Minister added that there was no proposal to hold a fresh inspection of the disputed areas along the international border in Assam.
However, joint demarcation of the three km of Lathitilla-Dumabari sector in Assam is pending. During the last Home Secretary-level talks between the two countries last year, the Bangladesh side said that they were examining the Indian proposal to resolve the pending boundary issues, the minister added.
The minister also denied that farmers along the Indo-Bangladesh border were facing problems in cultivating their land because of the ongoing fencing work. Gates have been provided at appropriate places for easy movement of inhabitants whose land falls between the fence and the international border. Necessary security is being provided by BSF to the inhabitants residing along the international borders, he stated.
The Government of India last fiscal spent Rs 270.47 crore for fencing of the Indo-Bangladesh border, the highest-ever allocation so far. In 2003-2004, a sum of Rs 247.74 crore was released for fencing work.
BJP demand: According to a PTI report from Guwahati, the BJP today urged the Centre to call an all-party meeting to discuss the issue of illegal migration from Bangladesh and accused the Congress and other "so-called secular parties" of encouraging the influx in the interest of "vote-bank politics."
"A national consensus must be evolved on the issue of Bangladeshi influx in North East and the Prime Minister must call an all-party meeting to discuss this else the country will head for another partition," vice-president of BJP's Kisan Morcha Radhamohan Singh told reporters here.
BJP, he said, does not view the immigration from Bangladesh as a Hindu-Muslim problem but as
a national problem and added that only those parties that do not value national interests dub it communal.
“The party," he said, "supported the view of non-political organisations that if the population pattern of the minority community in Assam, West Bengal and the rest of North East was not immediately reversed, the country will head for another partition.”
He urged the Centre to immediately scrap the Illegal Migrants Determination by Tribunal (IMDT) Act, contending that instead of encouraging detection of migrants, it was providing legal protection to the infiltrators.
It is well mentions that the communal BJP , who allways from long before use to say all against muslims , but when did they started to be pro muslims ?
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