Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN)-Raising the issue of illegal immigration between India and Bangladesh, the BJP’s ideological mentor RSS has demanded that the newly-approved Land Boundary Agreement should be followed up by sealing the border between the two countries.
The saffron outfit said it would help check the menace of illegal immigration, reports India Today.
The Centre recently approved the historic Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh.
Calling the India-Bangladesh deal a “landmark” move, RSS mouthpiece Organiser has cautioned the government that a “Jammu & Kashmir-like imbroglio on India’s eastern border” will arise, if illegal immigration from Bangladesh is not checked.
This landmark deal should be followed up with the illegal immigration issue.
Otherwise, we will have to deal with another Jammu & Kashmir-like imbroglio in the future on the eastern border… Now with borders marked, it is time to address the issues pertaining to illegal immigration,” an editorial in the latest edition of Organiser said.
The illegal migration and subsequent changes in demography have resulted in vote bank considerations surpassing national security concerns,” it said, accusing both the previous governments in West Bengal – the Left government and the incumbent Trinamool Congress government led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee – of not reining in the trend
There are an estimated 1.5 crore illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in India,” Organiser alleged.
The RSS alleged that during the four-year Trinamool Congress rule, there have been more than 300 incidents of communal violence and rioting in Bengal.
The saffron outfit termed the Mamata government’s lethargic response in these cases alarming.
It also voiced concern over reducing population of Hindus in Bangladesh on account of growing radicalisation.
It cited Bangladesh Census data to make the point that Hindus are slowly but surely vanishing from Bangladesh.
Besides, it took a dig at the secular voices in politics, academics and media for turning a deaf ear to such incidents.
Time has come to call spade a spade”, the article said.
Another article in ‘Organiser’ highlighted the plight of Hindus since the Partition of Bengal in 1905.
The atrocities and forcible migration of Hindus continue from the erstwhile East Bengal, East Pakistan and now Bangladesh,” it alleged.
The editorial also voiced concern over “radicalisation” of Bangladesh, saying, “Whether to curb radicalisation or go the Pakistani way are the options Bangladesh has to explore, but India definitely should not bear repercussions of radicalised Bangladesh on Indian soil.”
The RSS spoke of Hindus migrating to India “in large numbers as refugees” and Muslims entering the neighbouring states as illegal migrants.
This has been a bone of contention in Assam, to some extent in Meghalaya and largely in Paschim Banga.
Since the communists took the baton of ‘secular’ politics in Bengal, they systematically nurtured their constituency on communal lines,” it said, raising concerns on the “attacks on Hindus” in West Bengal.