[🇧🇩] Terrorist BSF is pushing Indian Nationals into Bangladesh

[Saif]

Hindutva Indians are the most selfish inhuman people in the planet. They need a lesson in humility.

India has a huge business in the Gulf countries and Bangladesh which helps their economy but they support Israel instead of Palestine and Iran. The less I talk about India's behavior with Bangladesh the better.

 

[Bilal9]

India has a huge business in the Gulf countries and Bangladesh which helps their economy but they support Israel instead of Palestine and Iran. The less I talk about India's behavior with Bangladesh the better.

They are pushing Rohingyas to Bangladesh. They should push them to Myanmar. Typical Hindutva behavior.

 

[Saif]

12 Rohingyas among 62 more people pushed into Bangladesh by BSF

The Border Security Force of India pushed at least 62 more people, including 12 Rohingyas, into Bangladesh through different border points in Sylhet, Sunamganj, Moulvibazar and Lalmonirhat districts between Monday morning and Tuesday morning.

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12 Rohingyas among 62 more people pushed into Bangladesh by BSF
Staff Correspondent 24 June, 2025, 13:19

Indian Border Security Force reportedly pushed 19 more people into Bangladesh through Sylhet border on early Tuesday. | UNB photo

The Border Security Force of India pushed at least 62 more people, including 12 Rohingyas, into Bangladesh through different border points in Sylhet, Sunamganj, Moulvibazar and Lalmonirhat districts between Monday morning and Tuesday morning.

With the latest push-ins, the number of people, including Rohingyas and Indian nationals, pushed into Bangladesh by the BSF since May 7 has reached 1,617.

With the 12 Rohingyas, the Indian BSF has so far pushed at least 159 Rohingyas, including 50 registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India, into Bangladesh.

New Age staff correspondent in Sylhet reported that 19 people were pushed into Bangladesh through Jaintapur border in Sylhet district, 20 people through Chhatak border in Sunamganj, and 16 people, including 12 Rohingya refugees, through Borolekha border in Moulvibazar.

Border Guard Bangladesh 48 Battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Md Nazmul Haque said that 39 people, including women and children, were pushed into Bangladesh through the Jaintapur and Chhatak borders on Tuesday.

He said that the BSF pushed 19 people into Bangladesh territory through Minatila border point under the Jaintapur upazila at about 6:30am.

‘Later in the morning, 20 more people were pushed into Bangladesh through Noyakot border point at Chhatak upazila,’ the BGB officer said.

‘Among them, 38 people hail from Kurigram district and the rest one from Pabna district,’ he said, adding that they entered India at different times for job and they had been working in separate parts of India for a long time.

On Monday, the BSF pushed 16 individuals, including 12 Rohingya refugees, through Barlekha border in Moulvibazar.

BGB 52 Battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Ariful Haque Chowdhury told New Age that the BSF pushed 12 Rohingya refugees and 4 Bangladeshis through Kumarshail border point at Shahbajpur union of Barlekha upazila at about 9:00am on Monday.

He said that a patrol team detained them immediately after they were pushed into the Bangladesh territory and handed them over to the police.

Barlekha police station officer-in-charge Abul Kashem Sarker told New Age on Tuesday that preparations were underway to send the 12 Rohingyas to the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp.

New Age correspondent in Lalmonirhat reported that seven individuals, including children, were pushed into Bangladesh through Patgram border in the district on Tuesday morning.

Nabinagar BGB camp commander Rezaul Islam said that the seven people were handed over to the Patgram police station.

Further action would be taken after verifying their identity, he said, adding that the individuals said that they hailed from Khulna district.

They claimed that they had been living in India’s Delhi for the past 35 years.​

 

[Saif]

People of W Bengal being branded Bangladeshis

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said Bangla-speaking people from the state were being branded as “Bangladeshis” in some BJP-ruled states.

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People of W Bengal being branded Bangladeshis
Says Mamata, blames BJP-ruled states of persecution

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said Bangla-speaking people from the state were being branded as "Bangladeshis" in some BJP-ruled states.

She told reporters in Kolkata that she knew 300-400 Bangla-speaking migrant labourers were confined to a building in Rajasthan even after showing valid documents.

"Is it a crime to speak in Bangla -- the language of Rabindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda among other luminaries? I think Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not aware of this development. I will draw his attention," she said.

Mamata claimed that apart from Rajasthan, such incidents also took place in BJP-ruled Delhi and Madhya Pradesh in the past.

She said West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant is taking up the issue with his counterpart in Rajasthan.

"As far as my knowledge goes, whoever arrived till 1971 is an Indian citizen," she added.

Mamata said 1.5 crore migrant workers from different states are employed in West Bengal.

"But we can never think of taking such steps which go against the spirit of pluralism of India. What if such steps are taken against migrants from other states here for speaking their mother tongue? Is talking in Bangla considered sacrilegious by BJP-ruled regimes?" she asked.

Mamata said around 22 lakh migrant workers from West Bengal are currently employed in other states.

"Will Tamil-speaking people be deported to Sri Lanka since they speak Tamil, or will, for that matter, Indians belonging to the Gorkha community be sent to Nepal for speaking in Nepali?

"I often urge people to stay back and work here, but many go outside the state in search of livelihood. Is it their crime to speak in Bangla? They carry all relevant citizenship documents," she said.

Mamata had flagged the same issue on the floor of the State Assembly last week, stating that Bangla-speaking migrants from West Bengal were deported from BJP-ruled states in Western India and pushed towards Bangladesh despite producing all citizenship proof.

"The dialect spoken by people in Bangladesh is different from the dialect spoken by Bangla-speaking Indian citizens in West Bengal. How can residents of our state be harassed in this way?" she asked.​

 

[Saif]

India accused of illegal deportations targeting Muslims

India has deported without trial to Bangladesh hundreds of people, officials from both sides said, drawing condemnation from activists and lawyers who call the recent expulsions illegal and based on ethnic profiling. New Delhi says the people deported are undocumented migrants. The Hindu...

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India accused of illegal deportations targeting Muslims
Bangladesh, largely encircled by land by India, has seen relations with New Delhi turn icy since a mass uprising in 2024 toppled Dhaka’s government, a former friend of India.

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Updated: 27 Jun 2025, 18: 25

Border Security Force (BSF) women personnel patrol along the borderline fence at the India-Bangladesh border in Golakganj, Dhubri district in India’s Assam State on 26 May 2025 AFP

India has deported without trial to Bangladesh hundreds of people, officials from both sides said, drawing condemnation from activists and lawyers who call the recent expulsions illegal and based on ethnic profiling.

New Delhi says the people deported are undocumented migrants.

The Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has long taken a hardline stance on immigration -- particularly those from neighbouring Muslim-majority Bangladesh -- with top officials referring to them as “termites” and “infiltrators”.

It has also sparked fear among India’s estimated 200 million Muslims, especially among speakers of Bengali, a widely spoken language in both eastern India and Bangladesh.

“Muslims, particularly from the eastern part of the country, are terrified,” said veteran Indian rights activist Harsh Mander.

“You have thrown millions into this existential fear.”

Bangladesh, largely encircled by land by India, has seen relations with New Delhi turn icy since a mass uprising in 2024 toppled Dhaka’s government, a former friend of India.

But India also ramped up operations against migrants after a wider security crackdown in the wake of an attack in the west -- the 22 April killing of 26 people, mainly Hindu tourists, in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Bangladesh has said India has pushed more than 1,600 people across its border since May. Indian media suggests the number could be as high as 2,500.

New Delhi blamed that attack on Pakistan, claims Islamabad rejected, with arguments culminating in a four-day conflict that left more than 70 dead.

Indian authorities launched an unprecedented countrywide security drive that has seen many thousands detained -- and many of them eventually pushed across the border to Bangladesh at gunpoint.

‘Do not dare’

Rahima Begum, from India’s eastern Assam state, said police detained her for several days in late May before taking her to the Bangladesh frontier.

She said she and her family had spent their life in India.

“I have lived all my life here -- my parents, my grandparents, they are all from here,” she said. “I don’t know why they would do this to me.”

Indian police took Begum, along with five other people, all Muslims, and forced them into swampland in the dark.

“They showed us a village in the distance and told us to crawl there,” she told AFP.

“They said: ‘Do not dare to stand and walk, or we will shoot you.’”

Bangladeshi locals who found the group then handed them to border police who “thrashed” them and ordered they return to India, Begum said.

“As we approached the border, there was firing from the other side,” said the 50-year-old.

I have lived all my life here -- my parents, my grandparents, they are all from here. I don’t know why they would do this to me.
Rahima Begum, from India’s eastern Assam state
“We thought: ‘This is the end. We are all going to die.’”

She survived, and, a week after she was first picked up, she was dropped back home in Assam with a warning to keep quiet.

‘Ideological hate campaign’

Rights activists and lawyers criticised India’s drive as “lawless”.

“You cannot deport people unless there is a country to accept them,” said New Delhi-based civil rights lawyer Sanjay Hegde.

Indian law does not allow for people to be deported without due process, he added.

Bangladesh has said India has pushed more than 1,600 people across its border since May.

Indian media suggests the number could be as high as 2,500.

The Bangladesh Border Guards said it has sent back 100 of those pushed across -- because they were Indian citizens.

People of Muslim identity who happen to be Bengali speaking are being targeted as part of an ideological hate campaign.
Harsh Mander, veteran Indian rights activist.

India has been accused of forcibly deporting Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, with navy ships dropping them off the coast of the war-torn nation.

Many of those targeted in the campaign are low-wage labourers in states governed by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), according to rights activists.

Indian authorities did not respond to questions about the number of people detained and deported.

But Assam state’s chief minister has said that more than 300 people have been deported to Bangladesh.

Separately, Gujarat’s police chief said more than 6,500 people have been rounded up in the western state, home to both Modi and interior minister Amit Shah.

Many of those were reported to be Bengali-speaking Indians and later released.

“People of Muslim identity who happen to be Bengali speaking are being targeted as part of an ideological hate campaign,” said Mander, the activist.

Nazimuddin Mondal, a 35-year-old mason, said he was picked up by police in the financial hub of Mumbai, flown on a military aircraft to the border state of Tripura and pushed into Bangladesh.

He managed to cross back, and is now back in India’s West Bengal state, where he said he was born.

“The Indian security forces beat us with batons when we insisted we were Indians,” said Mondal, adding he is now scared to even go out to seek work.

“I showed them my government-issued ID, but they just would not listen.”​

 

[Saif]

If you speak in Bengali in India the administration will arrest and deport you to Bangladesh. The Bengalis in West Bengal are being branded as Bangladeshis by the Modi administration. The chief minister of West Bengal even commented that in India speaking in Bengali is like committing sin.

 

[Saif]

BJP states treat Bengalis like infiltrators in own country: Mamata

BJP-governed states were treating Bengalis as infiltrators in their own country, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday, adding: ‘Speaking Bengali does not make one a Bangladeshi,’ reports Times of India.

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BJP states treat Bengalis like infiltrators in own country: Mamata
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Mamata Banerjee. | File photo

BJP-governed states were treating Bengalis as infiltrators in their own country, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday, adding: ‘Speaking Bengali does not make one a Bangladeshi,’ reports Times of India.

Reacting sharply to fresh reports that Delhi Police had snapped water and electricity connections to Vasant Kunj’s Jai Hind Colony, where a large number of Bengali-speaking migrants live, Mamata said: ‘How can we claim to be a democratic republic if the basic rights to shelter, water and electricity are being trampled upon?’ ‘We will not remain silent while people from Bengal are treated like trespassers in their own country. Bengal stands in solidarity with every oppressed voice. We will raise this issue in every possible forum,’ she added.

In a post on X, the chief minister said: ‘There are over 1.5 crore migrant workers in Bengal who live with dignity. But the same cannot be said for BJP-governed states, where Bengalis are being treated as infiltrators in their own country. Speaking Bengali does not make one a Bangladeshi. These individuals are as much citizens of India as anyone else, regardless of what language they speak.’

‘Having failed in their attempts to deprive Bengalis in West Bengal, BJP is now exporting their Bangla-Birodhi agenda to other parts of the country in a strategic and systemic manner. Disturbing reports have emerged from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh, where Bengali-speaking individuals are facing targeted persecution. And now, this pattern of hostility has reached even the national capital,’ she alleged.

Referring to the news from Delhi, the chief minister said: ‘I am deeply disturbed by the alarming news of harassment emerging from Jai Hind Colony in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi — a settlement predominantly inhabited by Bengalis who build the city as part of its unorganised workforce... Their water supply was reportedly cut on orders from the BJP led govt. Electricity meters were confiscated, and power was abruptly cut the day before yesterday.’

Mamata’s statement comes a day before Calcutta High Court hears two habeas corpus petitions, alleging that six Birbhum residents, including three minors, who worked as ragpickers in Delhi were labelled ‘Bangladeshi’ and nabbed by police on June 18 and pushed into Bangladesh by BSF on June 26. The pleas said two families of migrant workers were picked up by Delhi Police during an ‘identity verification drive’ among the Bengali-speaking population.​