Siliguri, May 26: Director General of Border Security Force (BSF) Ajayraj Sharma today said "Anti-India Campaign" in Bangladesh which had encouraged Indian militant outfits to set up camps in the neighbouring country was "unfortunate". Addressing a press conference at Kadamtala, the headquarters of north Bengal frontier of BSF here, Sharma said that militant organisations Ulfa, ATTF, NLFD and KLD were running 194 camps in Bangladesh. "This was formally brought to the notice of our neighbour," he said.
Referring to his meeting with the Bangladesh counterpart in April last, Sharma said when he had raised the issue, the Bangladesh Rifle chief also raised a counter allegation of India sheltering Bangladesh militants which "had no basis." Sharma Instantly agreed to allow the BDR to raid such camps operating on Indian soil and at the same time asked the BDR to allow BSF to raid 194 Indian militants camps on their soil, the DG said. The BDR chief did not accept the proposal on the pretext that it would require his government's clearance, Sharma said. He also said that bdr which had agreed for joint patrolling with BSF along the Indo-Bangla border to eschew trans border crimes a year ago, was yet to come forward.
The DG was here on a visit to a few border outposts in north Bengal.
Bureau Report