Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Has Been Opposing Every Plan

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been opposing every plan: Bengal Politics. Mamta Sarkar is not just upset with BSF’s 50 km radius.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been opposing every plan, decision, and direction of the central government for the last seven years.

On some issues, the matter reached the court. Now the Mamta government has opened a front against the new instructions issued by the Central Government regarding the Border Security Force (BSF).

In fact, the central government has increased the scope of BSF in three states including Bengal.

According to the new directive, the BSF can conduct search operations up to 50 km from the border without any permission to arrest suspects.

Earlier this limit was only up to 15 km. Mamta government is strongly opposing this direction.

Although the Congress and the Akali Dal are also included in the protests in Punjab, the Trinamool Congress is the most annoyed.

It is feared that this dispute will deepen in the coming days. Bengal shares a border of about 2,216 km with Bangladesh.

Nine districts of the state are Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri, North and South Dinajpur, Malda, Murshidabad, Nadia, North and South 24 Parganas bordering Bangladesh.

To protect the border of these districts, two frontiers of BSF are deployed in the northern and southern regions of Bengal.

Most of the counterfeit Indian currency, narcotics, arms, and cattle smuggling occurs from the Indo-Bangladesh border near Malda, North and South Dinajpur, and Murshidabad districts.

On the other hand, there are all kinds of smuggling and illegal business including infiltration from Nadia, North and South 24 Parganas districts.

Malda is most notorious for smuggling counterfeit notes and cows. The population is dense in the areas adjacent to the border, as well as rivers, through which smuggling and infiltration are carried out.

In all these districts, Border Security Force personnel have frequent encounters with smugglers. Apart from this, there are frequent disputes with the villagers as well.

In such a situation, what will happen after the expansion of the Border Security Force, only time will tell.

On the other hand, the districts bordering Bangladesh have 149 out of 294 assembly seats and 20 Lok Sabha seats out of 42. If seen, almost half of the seats in the Assembly and Lok Sabha have come under the ambit of this new change.

This is the reason why Trinamool is seeing politics in this. Trinamool leaders argue that the central government uses the CBI, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), and Income Tax (IT) to harass opposition leaders and will now take action through the BSF as well.

A former senior Bengal police officer, on the condition of anonymity, said that following this direction, the BSF’s confrontation with the police will increase.

The reason for this is that the police work under the pressure of the ruling party and when a situation adverse to the Trinamool arises, the possibility of a dispute will increase.

On the other hand, BSF officials of the Southern Frontier of Bengal say that this will not cause any dispute, but will strengthen the security.

Till now BSF used to work in coordination with local police even within a 15 km radius and now 50 km will also work in the same manner and this will make it easier to check illegal activities.

If seen, the reason for this opposition is also geographical. The districts of Bengal bordering Bangladesh are less in width and more in length.

In such a situation, due to the scope of investigation up to 50 km, only about half the area of ​​the district will be under BSF, hence its political implications are being extracted.

This is the reason why the Mamta government has termed this decision as irrational and an attack on federalism and an attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of the states.

Transport Minister Firhad Hakim said, ‘The central government is violating the federal structure of the country. Law and order is a state subject, but the central government is trying to interfere in it.

They argue that the work of preventing infiltration is done on the border. There should be tight security. The CPI(M) has also been termed as interference of the Center in the power of the state.

On the other hand, Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar said, “The country’s security will be strengthened by the Centre’s decision.

Infiltration, smuggling, and other anti-national activities will come down. This will benefit Assam, Punjab, and Bengal.

Conflict may arise with the state police, as the state police have become politicized. I want BSF and state police to work together.