The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has increased its vigilance along the border to prevent any kind of infiltration, the force said in a statement on Monday night.
The BGB said it remains constantly alert to prevent infiltration through border areas and is carrying out its duties with utmost professionalism to avoid any untoward incident.
The development comes as India’s ruling BJP is set to form government in West Bengal for the first time, having won 147 seats out of 293 in the state legislative assembly elections, according to latest trends.
The result marks the end of Mamata Banerjee’s one-and-a-half-decade-long rule in the state bordering Bangladesh. Her party, Trinamool Congress, had won 55 seats according to the latest available information.
Voting for the 294-seat West Bengal assembly was held in two phases on 23 and 29 April, with a record 93 percent turnout — unprecedented across India.
The Indian central government and election commission had recently removed over 60 lakh (6 million) names from the voter list in West Bengal, approximately 8.57 percent of total voters. These removed voters have been referred to as “infiltrators,” sparking intense debate between the BJP and Trinamool Congress for two months.
Trinamool Congress claims these are their voters and that the Modi government selectively removed people from particular communities.
Following the BJP’s victory in the assembly elections, there are concerns that Bengalis may be pushed across the border as infiltrators from West Bengal, prompting the BGB to heighten its alertness along the frontier.
