If helpless people knock on the door of Bengal, we will definitely give them shelter, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
New Delhi - The Chief Minister of the Indian state of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, has expressed her solidarity with the people of Bangladesh and said that her state will help the people in distress from the neighboring country. It will open its doors. I should not talk about the issues of Bangladesh because it is a sovereign country and whatever needs to be said on this issue is the Centre's subject he said at the Trinamool Congress's 'Yum Shuhada' rally.
But I can tell you that if helpless people knock on the door of Bengal, we will definitely give them shelter. who is facing a crisis? He cited the example of ethnic conflict in Assam and said that West Bengal had sheltered people from the neighboring state during it.
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In a post on social media platform X, he wrote that hundreds of students and others are returning to West Bengal from troubled Bangladesh. I have asked my state administration to provide all possible assistance to the returnees. For example, around 300 students reached the Hilli border on Sunday and most of them left safely for their respective destinations.
However, 35 of them needed help and we provided them with basic facilities. India's 4,96 km long border with Bangladesh is joined by a 2,216 km long border with West Bengal. The state has deep cultural and linguistic ties with Bangladesh and had displaced people from Bangladesh during the 1971 war. The Border Security Force (BSF) said in a statement that over the past four days, 1062 students got admission to West Bengal.
Out of 1,62 students, 901 are Indians and the rest are students from Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh. BSF South Bengal Frontier Spokesperson and Deputy Inspector General A K Arya confirmed that BSF is in constant communication with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and has provided special support to ICP and LCS. has established
