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By: Nithin Sridhar
March 04, 2007
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Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh was formed in
1971, under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after the bloody
Bangladesh Liberation War, in which it was supported by India.1 But, today
Bangladesh had become home for Islamic terrorist outfits like
Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami (HuJI), Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB)
,Jama"atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Purba Bangla Communist Party (PBCP).2
North-East India’s separatist outfits like ULFA [Assam],
ANVC[Meghalaya],NLFT[Tripura], NSCN[Nagaland], PLA[Manipur] have there
camps in Bangladesh. These organizations are involved not only in creating
chaos in India but also ethnic cleansing of minorities in Bangladesh. The
Hindu population of Bangladesh [then East Pakistan] in 1947 was 29.17%,
but it decreased to 2.5% in 2001.4
According to the 2001 census report Indian population is 1,027,015,247.3
Of this, 1.5 crore people of Bangladeshi Infiltrators who are living in
India.5 The Intelligence Bureau has reportedly estimated, after an
extensive survey, that the present number is about 16 million. The August
2000 report of the Task Force on Border Management placed the figure at 15
million, with 300,000 Bangladeshis entering India illegally every month.6
It is estimated that about 13 lakh Bangladeshis live in Delhi alone. It
has been reported that 1 crore Bangladeshis are missing from Bangladesh
[August 4, 1991, Morning Sun] and it implies that those people have
infiltrated India. These infiltrators mainly settle in North-East India
and in West Bengal. This is shown by the fact that there has been
irregular increase in the Muslim population in these states and many of
the districts have become Muslim majority. The proportion of Muslims in
Assam had increased from 24.68% in 1951 to 30.91% in 2001.Whereas in the
same time period the proportion of Muslims in India increased from 9.91%
to 13.42%.7 In West Bengal, the Muslim population in west Dinajpur, Maldah,
Birbhum and Murshidabad percentage wise in 36.75, 47.49, 33.06 and 61.39
respectively according to 1991 census.
This has not only caused the burden on the Indian Economy, but also
threatens the Identity of the Indigenous people of the North-East of
India. In Tripura, another north eastern state of India, the local
population have been turned into a minority community over time by the
sheer numbers of cross border migrants from Bangladesh. In 1947, 56 per
cent of Tripura’s population consisted of tribal (or indigenous)
population. Today this stands at a quarter of the total.8 In many
districts these infiltrators are the one who decides the outcome of
elections. Outcomes of the 32% of Vidhana Sabha seats in Assam and 18% of
seats in West Bengal are decided by them.9 This is due to the fact that
political parties are helping them to get Ration Cards and Voters ID and
hence using them to win elections.
North-Eastern region is connected to rest of India by a small strip called
“The Siliguri Corridor” or “Chickan’s Neck”.The militants have planned to
isolate North-East of India from the rest of India and to create a new
Muslim nation called “Islamistan”. This Operation is named as “Operation
Pin code”. For this they have planned to infiltrate 3000 Jihadis into
North Eastren region. Jan 15, 2005,The Pioneer]. The “Mughalistan Reaserch
Institute of Bangladesh” has released a map where a Muslim corridor named
“Mughalistan” connects Pakistan and Bangladesh via India. According to the
task force, there are 905 Mosques and 439 Madrasas along Indo-Bangladesh
border on the Indian side10.
These clearly indicate the intensity of the problem. Bangladesh with the
help of ISI is silently invading India. If we do not take necessary
measures India will undergo another partition. The present laws to counter
the infiltration issues are not enough. We need to enact stringent laws.
Indians should economically boycott them and create a hostile situation
for them.
Nithin Sridhar
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Sources
1 Wikipedia
2
Satp.org
3 http://www.censusindia.net/results/resultsmain.html
4 Neighbor or invader by Dina Nath Mishra, The Pioneer
http://www.hvk.org/articles/0902/5.html
5 Future of Hindus in Bangladesh by Bhupendra Kr. Bhattacharyya, Organiser
6 , 7,8
Refugees, Illegal Migrants and Local Perceptions in India"sFar
East by Anup Saikia
9,10
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