In a statement, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said 128 Bangladeshi nationals trying to cross over into India illegally were pushed back during the last two months.
Two Bangladeshi nationals were apprehended by the security forces along the India-Bangladesh border and pushed back to the neighbouring country in the wee hours of Wednesday.
The persons were identified as Babul Hussain and Sakib Mia.
Taking to social media platform X, CM Sarma wrote, "Maintaining strict vigil along the Indo-Bangla border, @assampolice has pushed back 128 infiltrators across the border in last two months.
Earlier, CM Sarma claimed that Bangladeshi infiltrators could get Aadhaar cards although they could not get enrolled on the voters' list.
He said, "There is no chance that people from Bangladesh illegally enter India and get themselves enrolled in the voters' list in Assam. We have caught many people who were trying to gain illegal entry into the Indian territory and pushed them back within a few hours. Most of the infiltrators were apprehended in the morning around 5 a.m., and before 9 a.m., they were pushed back. In two or three hours, they cannot register themselves in the voters' list."
However, the Chief Minister sees no wrong in being a little over cautious.
"We have decided to take a slew of measures for the detection of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh because there is a possibility that a few infiltrators might have escaped the clutches of the security personnel," he added.
Assam Police have been directed to adopt all necessary preventive and precautionary measures to strengthen detection and proactively put brakes on the illegal migrants' movement.
The infiltration through Bangladesh breezes across the border and enters India for the sake of jobs.
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