Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday claimed that none of the infiltrators, nabbed so far while trying to cross the Bangladesh border illegally, was a Hindu.
"We are capturing, either one or a group of foreigners in our state from last 2 months. But, because of the porous boundary between India and Bangladesh, in spite of best effort by BSF, some people are still coming into our country.". The state government needs to play a highly proactive role. Tipura is also identifying a few foreigners.
Assam also has, but in spite of all our best effort, people must be going to different states of the country as well, because we are getting so many people coming to the border, which says they have gone to Bangladesh and brought fresh ones from there," Sarma told media persons at a press conference.
"We are coordinating with the border security force.". Sometime, people are identified through a joint operation; sometime by BSF; sometime by the state police, but it is a coordinated exercise. In last 2 months, we have detected 138 infiltrators, and we have pushed them back.
But one thing I must again say that contrary to the expectation that Hindus will come inside India because of the instability in Bangladesh, we are finding only the Rohingya Muslims coming into our country. So I think, the perception about Hindu Bengal in the past is wrong. That is what the data says," he claimed.
"Now secondly, the Muslim Rohingya is still trying to come into the various states of our country. Every state government must remain vigilant and they must work very closely with the BSF. So Assam and Tripura are working very closely. We are detecting people. If Bengal government also, start detecting people, I think this will be a, well orchestrated and this will be a systematic effort.". But if we push them back, they can again reenter through the Bengal border, I think Meghalaya, Assam, Tripura, Bengal, and all state governments must support BSF aggressively. Otherwise, things may deteriorate, CM Sharma said.
While identities have been changed in some case, he said " I think if we work very closely, we can detect people. And our concern is whether he's Hindu or Muslim, we are least bothered. Our question is that if anybody comes from Bangladesh into our country illegally, they must be detected, they must be pushed back. So, I think irrespective of their religious identity, we are working.
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