Bangladesh MP flags possible refugee crisis from India

DHAKA: Hardline Jamaat-backed absorption MP Akhter Hossen has warned astir a imaginable influx of Muslims into Bangladesh from neighbouring India, alleging a imaginable “conspiracy being hatched successful the region” to load his state with a exile crisis.Hossen did not sanction the “region” successful India helium had successful mind. However, his statements were seen by galore arsenic referring to the just-concluded elections successful Assam and West Bengal.Exit polls person predicted a BJP triumph successful Assam, and portion they are divided connected the results successful Bengal, immoderate person fixed the saffron enactment an borderline implicit its rival and governing TMC, which it has accused of “harbouring” amerciable Bangladeshis arsenic portion of the latter’s “Muslim appeasement politics”.In immoderate areas, the Rohingya assemblage (from Buddhist-majority Myanmar’s Rakhine State) person already entered Bangladesh, and “there is nary warrant that a question of refugees volition not beryllium created by expelling Muslims from a neighbouring country,” the National Citizen Party subordinate said, successful an evident notation to Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma’s “pushing backmost amerciable Bangladeshis into their country” remarks.He urged for nationalist unity to forestall specified a scenario. “People indispensable stay united, conscionable arsenic the federation stood unneurotic always, particularly successful 1971 (Liberation War) and 2024 (July uprising against PM Sheikh Hasina).”

He added that Bangladesh indispensable respond arsenic a cohesive unit to immoderate menace to its sovereignty oregon independency oregon to immoderate outer effort to enforce decisions connected its people. “We are situated successful a analyzable portion and are profoundly connected to aggregate (geopolitical) realities,” helium said.Opposition main whip successful Parliament and NCP convener, Nahid Islam Nahid, raised concerns implicit alleged “ongoing borderline killings”. He warned of push-in situations on the border, alleging that astir 4,000 radical had been “pushed in”. “A unsafe situation whitethorn beryllium emerging successful the days ahead,” helium told Parliament.