Send Bangladeshis to camp: Centre to Raje
Posted by akpwld on May 19, 2008
Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has told NDTV that the Centre asked her government to round up all Bangladeshis staying illegally in the state and put them in a transit camp.
Speaking to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of Indian Express in Walk The Talk programme Raje said her government has been writing to the Centre since June 2006 about the problem of illegal Bangladeshi migrants, and this was the suggestion the Union Home Ministry made in formal written replies.
With investigators suspecting the role of Bangladesh based militant group HuJI in the Jaipur serial blasts, Bangladeshis staying illegally in Rajasthan have come under the scanner.
Many of them have been held for questioning.
Excerpts of the interview:
Vasundhara Raje: I will give you an example on the deportation and of the Bangladeshi national residents finding ways to Rajasthan.
We have written letters to them (Centre) many times. We wrote to them in June 2007 saying we need to do something about this. We got a reply back from them: ”Why don’t you collect them and put them into a transit camp somewhere.
