Parties cross swords on Bangladesh immigrants for marginal gains

KOLKATA: About three lakh Bangladeshi immigrants enter India every year without valid papers. This was the status report submitted to the Vajpayee government in 2000 by the Madhav Godbole Committee on Border Management. A year later, then Bengal CM Jyoti Basu put the infiltration figure at 1.5 crore — 30 per cent of them Muslims. The figure must have increased by now.

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