Rajnath Singh visits Bangladesh border enclave

A day after the National Investigation Agency claimed that the terrorist involved in Burdwan (West Bengal) blast conspired to dislodge the government in Dhaka, India’s Home Minister Rajnath Singh visited the Bangladeshi Enclave on India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal.
On his two-day visit to the state, the home minister is expected to visit the Bangladeshi Enclave, the BSF outpost on the Indo-Bangladesh boarder in Cooch Behar district and Teen Bigha corridor. He will check the ground reality in the area ahead of the implementation of Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh. Mr Singh will also hold talks with officers of the Border Security Force and the Border Guard Bangladesh at the Teen Bigha Corridor. He is also the first home minister to visit the Bangladeshi Enclave in India.
The NIA, who is probing the October 2014 Burdwan blast, claimed in the chargesheet that the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, a banned terrorist organisation in Bangladesh, had conspired to overthrow the democratically elected government in the country.
Currently, Bangladesh has 51 enclaves in India, and all of them are in Cooch Behar district of West Bengal. India has 111 enclaves spread in four district of Bangladesh on the same boarder. Once the deal is implemented, the Bangladeshi enclave in India will merge with India, and the Indian enclave in Bangladesh will be a part of Bangladesh. Citizens will be given citizenship of their respective country.

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