Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General (DG) Major General Shafeenul Islam has said BGB is not worried about the current citizenship act crisis in India.
He said this while answering questions to reporters at a press briefing held at the BGB headquarters in Dhaka on Thursday.
After the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) crisis began in India, around 445 trespassers were detained in the last two months.
However, the BGB DG said those were Bangladeshi citizens who went to India earlier in search of work, without any legal documentation.
“It is BGB’s duty to stop illegal infiltration into the country. It is our routine job and has nothing to do with NRC or CAA, therefore we are not worried about India’s internal crisis,” he told the reporters.
Last year, a total of 972 including woman and children (all Bangladeshi citizens) were detained while trying to return to Bangladesh after visiting India illegally and 253 case were filed against them. All of them went or tried to go to India at different times through middlemen.
