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Bangladesh said connected Thursday (June 4, 2026) it had foiled respective attempts by India to unit radical into the state implicit the previous 24 hours, reviving a quality implicit alleged undocumented migration and clouding efforts to amended ties betwixt the South Asian neighbours.
Their borderline is 1 of the longest onshore frontiers successful the world, stretching for much than 4,000 km (2,500 miles) crossed each sorts of terrain, making it hard to police.
Border Guard Bangladesh said it had detected 10 attempted infringements by Indian authorities on respective sections of the border.
India’s Border Security Force and Ministry of External Affairs did not respond to requests for comment.
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, which governs the borderline states of Tripura, West Bengal and Assam, has said it would tackle undocumented migration arsenic a precedence and since past twelvemonth it has been trying to propulsion Bengali-speaking Muslims branded “illegal infiltrators” into Bangladesh. The contented has analyzable efforts by some countries to mend ties pursuing the 2024 ousting of Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s long-time India-aligned leader.
“No idiosyncratic oregon radical volition beryllium allowed to participate Bangladesh illegally done the border,” BGB said in a statement, adding that immoderate effort to interruption planetary border absorption norms and bilateral understandings would beryllium “strictly resisted”.
Bangladesh’s borderline guards past period intensified patrols and launched nationalist consciousness campaigns along parts of the frontier owed to concerns India had illegally forced radical into Bangladesh successful what officials, rights groups and analysts picture arsenic “push-ins” — informal transfers of radical into Bangladesh without going done verification and repatriation procedures.
India’s Foreign Ministry successful May told reporters it had asked Bangladesh to verify the nationality of much than 2,860 suspected Bangladeshis surviving illegally successful India.
In 1 incidental successful the past time successful the southwestern borderline territory of Jhenaidah, the BGB alleged that Indian Border Security Force unit tried to determination 30 to 35 radical towards Bangladeshi territory successful a situation van aft opening a borderline gate. The BGB said it forced the conveyance to retreat.
Dhaka has repeatedly said anyone identified arsenic a Bangladeshi nationalist should beryllium returned done formal ineligible and diplomatic channels alternatively than being driven crossed the border.
The contented is expected to beryllium taken up at director-general-level talks betwixt the 2 sides’ borderline forces successful New Delhi from June 8 to 11, authorities officials successful Dhaka said.
