Rajnath Singh asks border states to check influx of Rohingyas

TIL Desk/National/Kolkata/ Union home minister Rajnath Singh has asked five eastern states sharing boundaries with Bangladesh to be extra vigilant against the influx of Rohingyas and illegal immigrants through the porous Indo-Bangla border.

At a meeting of chief ministers and home ministers of West Bengal, Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Tripura here, he said a border protection grid on the lines of Unified Command set up in insurgency-hit states will soon come up in these states to check illegal infiltration.

“The state governments have to be extra vigilant against the Rohingyas and other illegal immigrants,” he said, flagging the central government’s priority to check the illegal immigrants from Myanmar through Bangladesh.

The home minister resolved to check illegal immigrants who have links with extremists groups for further anti-national activities with an ulterior motive and posing threat to internal security.

“Radical elements and terrorists can be checked only with joint action and active cooperation of central and state governments,” he said.