India on Thursday said that New Delhi expects Dhaka to expedite the process of verifying the nationality of undocumented Bangladesh migrants so that they could be repatriated “in a smooth manner”.
During the weekly press briefing, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal also said that more than 2,862 cases of nationality verification are pending with Bangladesh, “some for over five years”.
The statements came against the backdrop of remarks made by Bangladesh Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s victory in the West Bengal Assembly elections on Monday.
Replying to a question about reports of Indian border guards “pushing in” persons into Bangladesh, Rahman said that Dhaka would take “whatever measures are necessary on that issue”.
He added: “When the Chief Minister of Assam [Himanta Biswa Sarma] said similar things and admitted he had taken certain actions, you saw that we strongly protested.”
Rahman was referring to the Bangladesh government summoning acting Indian High Commissioner Pawan Badhe on April 30 to protest what it described as “anti-Bangladesh remarks” made by Sarma.
Separately, Bangladesh Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed expressed hope that persons would not be “pushed” into the country after the BJP’s victory in the Assembly elections in the bordering states, The Times of India reported.
Apart from West Bengal, the Hindutva party also won the Assembly elections in Assam...
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