New Delhi:
Amid the increasing tension between India and Bangladesh, a high-level delegation of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrived in New Delhi on Monday for a two-year-old Director General of Director General talks with the Border Security Force (BSF). Bilateral talks will be held on Tuesday.
A senior official said, “Both India and Bangladesh are blaming each other for tension with the border due to confidence deficit, but now with these talks, efforts are being made to bridge the gaps,” The senior official said that India is going to raise issues related to the Indian rebel, in addition to recent attacks on Group Bangladesh and Indian citizens in Bangladesh.
According to him, the construction of a single-rich fence between the issues related to trans-body crimes and the two sides is also being discussed. He said, “Border infrastructure needs to be strengthened for forces to be able to better guards. So the coordinated boundary management plan will be focused on effective implementation and various confidence-making measures,” he said.
As the government -led government led by Sheikh Hasina was excluded from power in August 2024, the first such meeting between the two countries is the first such meeting between the two countries, the excess bets for both border guarding forces.
An official said an official, “This is a bi-annual relationship. These talks were held in November last year, but were postponed at Bangladesh’s request.”
This dialogue also attains importance as India has been expressing concern over the continuous increase in alignment between the interim government and Pakistan for the last several months.
“Since the coup since the coup, Bangladesh showed the growing diplomatic warmth towards Pakistan in August, a change that has expressed concern in India and has been raised by India on various platforms,” ​​a senior affairs officer Explained to a senior ministry official.
India has also objected to the increasing incidents of violence in Bangladesh, especially violence against Hindus, and continue to engage diplomatically to improve relations.
Intelligence inputs suggest that Bangladesh allowed Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI and military officials to visit sensitive areas near the Indian border. “The level of vigilance is at an all -time high with the limit and we will also increase these issues,” said an official.
The 55th Director General General-Level Border Coordination Conference between the two forces will be held at BSF Headquarters. A BSF official said that the Bangladeshi delegation may also call officials of some senior Union Home Ministry.
The Indian delegation is led by BSF Director General (DG) Daljit Singh Chaudhary, while the visiting Bangladeshi team is led by BGB DG chief General Mohammad Ashrafuzaman Siddiqui. The final edition of these bi-annual talks was held in Dhaka in March last year.
India and Bangladesh share 4,096 km long border in five states – West Bengal (2,217 km), Tripura (856 km), Meghalaya (443 km), Assam (262 km) and Mizoram (318 km).
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