The Hindu : 'Bangladeshi migrants working against India'

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Sunday, Feb 16, 2003

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'Bangladeshi migrants working against India'

By Our Special Correspondent

Bangalore Feb. 15. The All-India Samparka Pramukh of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Sripathy Sastry, has said that infiltration of people from Bangladesh into India over a period poses a threat to the security of the nation.

He told presspersons here today that as per an estimate, nearly 2.5 crore people had entered India on the guise of securing employment and established an anti-India network. At least 12,000 people had settled in Karnataka, he said, and added that a large number of them had obtained citizenship, and it was difficult to differentiate them from the local people.

Prof. Sastry said the infiltrators could create trouble. Most of them had benefited from the support extended by political parties in the name of secularism, he alleged. He called upon the Hindu society to be more vigilant, and keep a watch on such elements. Their network was quite extensive, and most of them lived on the outskirts of cities so as not to be identified, he said. It was unfortunate that the RSS was being made a scapegoat when there was a major clash or a bomb blast, such as the one in Coimbatore, sometime ago, he added.

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