West Bengal government to detect, delete and deport illegal infiltrators says CM Suvendu Adhikari

Emphasising that his authorities volition beryllium pugnacious connected amerciable infiltrators, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari connected Wednesday (May 20, 2026) said his authorities volition travel a caller argumentation of “detect, delete and deport” erstwhile it comes to ineligible infiltrators

“Those not covered nether CAA [Citizenship (Amendment) Act] they are are wholly amerciable infiltrators. The State constabulary volition apprehension them and manus to them to BSF. The BSF volition clasp talks with BDR [Border Guards Bangladesh] and effort to deport them. This means a argumentation of detect, delete and deport,” the Chief Minister said.

Mr. Adhikari said said and State’s Director General of Police and Home Secretary has been informed that successful each constabulary stations on the borderline of the State this instrumentality from contiguous comes into unit successful the involvement of the state and West Bengal.

The Chief Minister made the remarks astatine an lawsuit astatine the State Secretariat wherever the West Bengal authorities handed implicit onshore to the Border Security Force (BSF) for operation of borderline fencing on 27 km of India Bangladesh borderline crossed 5 districts of the State.

The announcement of handing implicit the onshore to the borderline guarding unit was held astatine the State Secretariat Nabanna Building and Director General of BSF Praveen Kumar was contiguous on with officials of West Bengal government.

A full of 31.9 cacres of onshore was purchased by the State authorities from the farmers and handed implicit to the BSF. One of the promises made by the BJP during the West Bengal Assembly polls that erstwhile it comes to powerfulness it volition manus implicit the onshore for borderline fencing to the BSF.

“In West Bengal, astir 1,600 km of the full 2,200 km borderline with Bangladesh has already been fenced, portion astir 600 km inactive remains unfenced. Wherever onshore is needed for fencing and borderline security, we volition manus it implicit to the BSF,” the Chief Minister said.

Mr. Adhikari claimed that for the past respective years, coordination meetings betwixt the BSF, State constabulary and medication successful bordering areas had not happened, district-level coordination mechanics had present been revived.

“The territory coordination meetings person present started and these volition hap regularly now,” the Chief Minister said.

Mr. Adhikari said that erstwhile Trinamool Congress authorities was not superior arsenic acold arsenic the contented of amerciable infiltration was concerned.

“A missive was sent by the Centre to the State past twelvemonth regarding the nonstop handover of infiltrators to the BSF, but the erstwhile authorities failed to instrumentality this important provision. We person present enforced it,” helium said.