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Rajnath visits Bangladesh border, talks to enclave dwellers
Siliguri, March 31
A day after the NIA claimed
that the terrorists involved in the Burdwan blast had conspired to
overthrow the government in Bangladesh, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on
Tuesday visited the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal.
Visits
to the border outposts in Cooch Behar district and the Tin Bigha
corridor as well as the border enclaves were on the itinerary of Rajnath
Singh during his two-day tour of the state.
He met enclave dwellers in Cooch Behar on Tuesday.
Rajnath
is slated to hold talks with officers of the Border Security Force and
the Border Guard Bangladesh at the Tin Bigha corridor.
The home minister would head to border outposts in the Sundarbans on Wednesday.
The
meet assumes significance as the National Investigation Agency (NIA),
probing the October 2, 2014 Burdwan blast, claimed in its chargesheet
that the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a proscribed terrorist
organisation in Bangladesh, had conspired to overthrow the existing
democratic government in the country.
After reaching Tin Bigha in a helicopter, Rajnath Singh headed towards an enclave in Balapukuri where he spoke with the locals.
The
home minister's visit to the enclaves is significant as the Narendra
Modi government is eager to ratify the Land Boundary Agreement with
Bangladesh which entails swapping of adversely occupied border enclaves.