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Expressing concern over the rise in infiltration by foreigners into Tripura, the TIPRA Motha party, alliance partner of the ruling BJP, has urged the Centre to prevent the influx, detect and identify foreign nationals “for the greater national interest of the country”. It also called for forming a high-power committee in the state to push back illegal immigrants, especially Rohingya people and Bangladeshi nationals.
In a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, TIPRA Motha MLA Ranjit Debbarma stated that there had been an increase in infiltration into Tripura along the Bangladesh border and that 23 foreign nationals were detained at Churaibari in North Tripura district.
“This is an urgent need of formation of a High Power Committee (Administrative Secretary, Department of Home, Secretary Home Department, District Superintendent of Police, District Magistrate and Collector, State Level Nodal Officer) in this State of Tripura for identification as well as push back the foreigners to their respective countries alike the State of Jammu & Kashmir,” Debbarma wrote in the letter.
“I do hereby draw your kind attention to consider my request letter on priority basis to prevent illegal infiltration of the foreigners, detection and Identification of the foreigners as soon as possible for the greater national interest of the country like India,” he wrote.
Elaborating about the need for a high-power committee, he said that a committee was formed in Jammu and Kashmir to identify and push back infiltrators. The committee was directed to forward a monthly report to the Centre.
Debbarma stated that a large number of Bangladeshis had entered the state, especially in Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) areas like Chhamanu, Gandatwisa in Dhalai district and Karbook and Shilachhari in Gomati district.
‘Mobile task force’s work not satisfactory’
Debbarma, while lauding the Government Railway Police for detaining foreign nationals and seizing contraband, said the record of mobile task force in this regard was not satisfactory.
A huge number of Bangladeshi and Rohingya people were arrested at the Agartala railway station and different parts of Tripura in the last few months while they were trying to board trains or vehicles out of the state.
Citing the success of GRP (Government Railway Police) and police efforts to detect illegal foreigners as “very much satisfactory”, the MLA said, “They have detected a large number of illegal foreigners and detained a remarkable quantity of contraband articles recently. The Tripura State Police (North Tripura District Police, Churaibari Police Station) detained a total of 23 (Twenty Three) Foreign Bangladeshi Nationals (Muslim Rohinga of Myanmar) at Churaibari Police Station.”
The Motha MLA also said that many Rohingya living in Bangladesh had entered Indian territory through Tripura and spread out across the country, “destroying the security and sovereignty of India”.
‘Illegal occupation of forest land’
Debbarma also expressed concern over illegal settlements in the TTAADC area and said illegal immigrants had established their localities and villages using illegal documents. He wrote, “In some cases, some of them are awarded with Government forest lands in the form of Patta and enjoying as well as occupying land opportunities on the part of the Government by illegal means. More surprising fact is that there is no effective legal and administrative action Initiated so far for the reason best known to them.”
The comments are considered crucial, since senior Motha leader Animesh Debbarma holds the forest portfolio in the state cabinet.
Parts of Tripura’s 856-km-long border with Bangladesh are still unfenced due to local disputes.
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