BSF allowing infiltrators to enter India, alleges Bengal CM

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the Border Security Force of letting infiltrators from Bangladesh enter India and charged the BSF with trying to destabilise the state.Banerjee said she could sense a "blueprint of the central government" behind this attitude of the BSF". "We have got information that the BSF is letting infiltrators enter India through Islampur, Sitai, Chopra and several other bordering areas. The BSF is also torturing people and trying to destabilise the state," she alleged at an administrative review meeting at the state secretariat in Kolkata.
Ms Banerjee also hit out at District Magistrates (DMs) in the state and made explosive remarks against the BSF and claimed "They (BSF) torture women, but why haven't you protested?" "The guarding borders is not in our hands, it's BSF duty. The Trinamool Congress doesn't guard the border.When people enter, where are they going? The DMs have information on where they are going," she claimed. The Border Security Force and the Centre are yet to respond to the claims made by Ms Banerjee.
Bangladesh has the longest border with India, with West Bengal sharing a 2,272 km-long boundary with the neighbouring country and Assam, Tripura, Mizoram and Meghalaya sharing the remaining boundary.