Enclave residents' agitation
In support of their five-point charter of demands the Bharat Bangladesh Enclave Exchange Co-ordination Committee submitted a memorandum to the district magistrate of Cooch Behar on Monday. Prior to submit the memorandum a large number of enclave residents assembled at Sagardighi Square.
Assistant secretary of BBEECC Mr Diptiman Sengupta said the handover of Tinbigha corridor was occurred twenty years ago but the Indira-Mujib agreement is yet to be implemented. It is known to all that the plight of enclave residents of India and Bangladesh may be ironed out by exchange of enclaves of the two neighbouring countries but that was not done till now. Now they have left with no alternative but to start a massive movement and even fast-unto-death, he said.
Mr Sengupta said a delegation of the BBEECC met the district magistrate and handed over the memorandum to her. The DM assured them that talks were going on over the enclave exchange issue between state government and the Centre. But, the suffering people of enclaves cannot wait for indefinite period as they have no facilities like other citizens, Mr Sengupta said.
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