Dhaka | The Bangladesh government on Tuesday while responding to the exclusion of 40 lakh people from the final draft of Assam’s National Register for Citizens said its India’s local matter and Bangladesh has nothing to do with that.
Speaking to a media publication in India, Bangladesh Information Minister Hasanul-Haque Inu said “Firstly, we see this as an internal, local political issue with the Indian state of Assam. It has nothing to do with Bangladesh. The Indian government has not discussed this issue with us, nor do we have any intention to take it up with India as it is an internal matter of India, our friendly neighbour.”
The minister further claimed that there is no illegal immigrant from Bangladesh in India. Speaking about the Bangladeshi refugees in India during the war Bangladesh’s Liberation war, Haque said,” Bangladesh had 10 million refugees in India during the liberation war with Pakistan. We are grateful to India for hosting them. They were subsequently repatriated or let us say the matter was addressed under the mutually agreed terms and jointly between the two countries.”
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