Guwahati March 24: Ex-Assam CM, Prafulla Kumar Mahanta and Present of Assam Gana Parisad, said in the a press conference in Guwahati, about the meeting he had with the Opposition leaders of both Rajya Sabha and Lok sabha, on the Bangladesh Land deal.
The AGP president said that he had asked the opposition leaders not the support the Bill in the parliament, or else it will be a great lose to Assam.
On the Tour to Delhi,The AGP president, met BJP leader Rajnath sing, Sushma suwaraj,Arun Jately, Sitaram Yetchury and also Sarad Yadav, who have accepted the request of the AGP.
In September 2011, the Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and the Bangladeshi prime minister, Sheikh Hasina signed an agreement in Dhaka to swap 111 Indian enclaves within Bangladesh for 51 Bangladeshi enclaves within India.
Under the agreement, India would give up territorial claims to roughly 1,165 acres of land, which will be transferred to Bangladesh. In return, Bangladesh will cede claims to around 1,881 acres of land, which will merge with the Indian Territory around them. If it is passed, it will help settle border disputes at several points in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam and Meghalaya.
According to the agreement, the 37,334 residents of India’s enclaves within Bangladesh will become Bangladeshis after the land swap, while the 14,215 people in Bangladesh’s enclaves will become Indians. Residents of the enclaves will receive all citizenship rights from their respective countries, including passports, welfare benefits and taxes.
The India-Bangladesh border has been tense for decades. A year ago, Human Rights Watch estimated that India’s Border Security Force had killed about 1,000 Bangladeshis over the past decade, in an effort to cut down on illegal migrants.
But Indian political parties such as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, and the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) in Assam have opposed the land swap.(SP News)
