Border security is our priority: Randhir Jaiswal
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Newly elected Chief Minister of West Bengal Subvendu Adhikari has decided to hand over the land needed by the Indian border security force BSF within 45 days for erecting barbed wire fence on the Indo-Bangladesh border. Responding to questions in this context, the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs of India Randhir Jaiswal said, “Protecting the security of the border is our priority.” We see this decision from that point of view.
Jaiswal said this at the weekly briefing of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi today. In response to the question whether this decision of the West Bengal Chief Minister will affect the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and India, he did not comment.
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The first cabinet meeting of the BJP government of West Bengal led by Shuvendu Adhikari was held on Monday. After the meeting, he said that his government will hand over the land to the BSF within 45 days to build a barbed wire fence on the international border with Bangladesh.
In response to a question yesterday, Bangladesh Prime Minister’s foreign affairs adviser Humayun Kabir told reporters that there is no place to scare Bangladesh with barbed wire. People and government of Bangladesh are not afraid of thorns.
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In today’s briefing in New Delhi, a journalist said to a question, the State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, Shama Obaid, spoke of the government’s zero tolerance for the illegal movement of Bangladeshi citizens to other countries. Bangladesh’s foreign minister said that the policy of a part of the citizens to Europe should be applicable to India or not?
Randhir Jaiswal did not directly answer this question either. He said, this (infiltration) is one of the issues discussed with Bangladesh. Bangladesh has long been requested to verify the citizenship of more than 2,860 people living illegally in India. India thinks they are all Bangladeshis. But Bangladesh has not yet said anything about it.
The Teesta development project also came up in the briefing. To a journalist’s question, it was reported that Bangladesh Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman recently visited China and requested them to take up the Teesta development project. Does taking such a decision in place of the previous government of Bangladesh (where India was asked to take over the project) destroy the space of mutual trust?
Randhir Jaiswal, the spokesperson of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, did not directly answer this question. He said that anywhere in the world any incident is kept under close watch. In this case too, there is that eye. He said that India’s relations with its neighbors are of mutual interest.
Responding to a question about reports that the West Bengal election results have created mixed reactions in some quarters in Bangladesh, Jaiswal said, “We have already indicated that India wants to make bilateral relations positive.” Wants to look positively. That attitude has not changed.
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