Bangladesh Made Dumping Ground of Indian Citizens: BNP

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said that the ruling Awami League government was endorsing the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens of India in advance while CAA and NRC had sparked widespread protests in India as elsewhere across the globe.

''They are collaborating with India to make Bangladesh a dumping ground of the Indian citizens who are excluded from the Indian citizenship,'' said the opposition party leader.

Mirza Fakhrul made the remarks as he was addressing a press conference at the party’s Naya Paltan office in Dhaka.

He alo slammed AL general secretary Obaidul Quader’s recent statement that Indian home minister Amit Shah rightly said many Hindu people had migrated to India due to communal violence after the BNP with Jamaat-e-Islami took over in 2001.

Obaidul said at a press conference that the minority persecution in 2001 could only be compared with the violence in 1971.

The BNP leader also criticized the foreign affairs minister AK Abdul Momen’s comment that the people entering Bangladesh from India would be sent back if they were not Bangladeshi citizens.

Fakhrul said such remarks testified to the fact that India was ''pushing in''.