Push back Bangladeshis to save Bharat

Extreme situations demand extreme measures. In this case, Bharat is already late in doing what it needs to do to secure its borders from illegal Bangladeshis and their “act of aggression”

It is imperative that the Government of Bharat ignores the protests of that so-called country Bangladesh with regard to our pushing back illegal migrants back into that country, one that we created only to be engulfed by their idea of lebensraum, their “act of aggression”, as the Supreme Court has observed.

The tragedy inflicted on us though is not so much the act of the Bangladeshi state alone, if we can call it that, that is, as it is an act of treason plotted and executed by a large set of people, from our country, who have used illegals to construct a vote-bank using every possible trick in the book, blatantly and shamelessly compromising Bharat’s democracy, way of life, economy, religious composition, community structures, and finally Bharat’s internal and external security.

Take Back Your Illegals, India Tells Bangladesh

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The cost has been colossal: entire districts in the country encroached on by illegals, decades-long agitations by Bharatiyas that have spilled into protracted militant movements of various kinds costing thousands of lives, unbearable land pressure, religious polarization triggered by the radical political posturing of the entrenched Bangladeshi illegal along with some others, a judicial system further burdened by the process of detection of often-floating Bangladeshi clusters—quite the futile effort, ad infinitum—along with the creation of a parallel administrative structure within the existing system, its only job being to facilitate the entrenching of the illegal Bangladeshi at the behest of certain major political forces that have compromised the country without thinking twice. The long-term implication of this has been the takeover of crucial and strategic legislative positions across states, by Bangladeshis voters who came in long after the Indira-Mujib Pact of 1971, which, ignoring all interests of the people of the Northeastern states made bonafide, with all necessary documentation, the residency of all people who came in from Bangladesh till that point of time. The sympathy from a Sanatani Bharat at that point in time was to be expected: Hindus fleeing an Islamic West Pakistan, had to be accommodated. What followed though was disastrous: a steady flow of the majority Islamic people from Bangladesh, something that for decades has gone unchecked and unabated, leading the country to its current crisis involving illegals. The divisions that this would create in our communities was completely ignored.

India had in that sense won a kinetic war against Pakistan in 1971, only to have hundreds of thousands of East Pakistanis come into our country, engulfing fragile economies and vulnerable communities that were least prepared to handle such an onslaught.

That continual war was to play out on several fronts: (a) the illegal Bangladeshi problem being projected, and believed by mainland states, to be a problem of Northeast India alone (b) the voice of the people of the Northeast who fought against the influx as being the voice of communal, anti-national communities (c) the mindset of states beyond the Northeast that people who had come to the Northeast, especially Assam, from an impoverished, overly densely populated region called Bangladesh to make a living here, would, somehow, not move to the rest of the country. That pipedream that was, quite expectedly, shattered in the decades that followed.

Today, illegals from Bangladesh constitute the most serious pan-India problem that the country deals with, one that involves radical Bangladeshis within the borders of India, communal clashes and civil society disturbances, sleeper-cell activations given their growing proximity to Pakistan that once inflicted Op Searchlight on them, and blatant opposition to the Indian state and its wellbeing. Illegal Bangladeshis have gone against the interests of India where they live illegally, just in the way so-called Bangladesh, a collection of Indian states that we made a country out of, today is one of India’s worst enemies.

It doesn’t take much to figure out the political parties who have brought things to such a pass. They’re there still doing their best to get their illegal-migrant vote-banks the legitimacy that is integral to the survival of these political parties, ones that find themselves sidelined with a rapidly growing nationalist sentiment, something that has propelled the BJP to power at the Centre, along with several states that now recognize the danger of illegals at their doorstep.

The resistance to the detection and deportation process has been multi-layered:

(a) The IMDT Act, which shows to what length political parties would go to protect the illegal Bangladeshi in India. Scrapped only in 2005, this piece of legislation made way for the illegal Bangladeshi to settle in India easily. Central Act. Passed in 1983. Provisions: (i) Put the onus of proof of proving foreigner status on the state rather than the accused having to prove that he or she is an Indian citizen. (ii) Anyone who wished to complain against an alleged illegal Bangladeshi was required to buy a form to fill up the complaint (iii) If an illegal moved from the jurisdiction of one police station to another, the case against that person would have to be filed all over again
The lack of an adequate number of Foreigners Tribunals
The Foreigners Tribunals that existed were not adequately staffed
A hostile ‘national’ media that insisted on painting the Assamese ‘communal’, chauvinist and anti-‘minority’.
Certain states making it impossible to fence the international border with so-called Bangladesh, through a multitude of delaying tactics. The problem persists
Sharp divisions created by certain political parties whose very survival and performance in elections continue to depend on illegal Bangladeshis
A merciless, no holds barred crushing of the Assam Agitation (1979-85), a process that resulted in some quarters launching militant movements that resulted in a backlash by security forces for decades. The issue of illegal migrants took a back seat during that time, with illegal immigration carrying on unabated and unchecked
Refusal to implement the NRC which was a demand of the All Assam Students Union. When it did happen, loopholes in the system made the process difficult. However with pressure increasing in the Northeast and the usual expected movement of illegal migrants, they moved to other states and other cities, creating a cheap workforce, while becoming a security threat to the country. The current, urgent requirement of a pan-India NRC is a direct result of the country not heeding the cries of the Northeast that said that it would only be a matter of time before what was perceived and projected to be a regional problem, became a national crisis.

ENEMIES WITHIN AND THE LONG ROAD TO SECURITY

The audacity of forces inimical to Bharat have only grown over the decades, aided and abetted by people who have, at various levels claimed to be secular, inclusive and politically polite. In the ’70s and ’80s the abettors comprised both politicians and some sections of the Press from regions beyond the Northeast, people who wanted the presence of illegal Bangladeshis in strength for a plethora of reasons that included political power, linguistic jingoism at the cost of the country, and a completely anti-national definition of secularism, an anti-majority stand where just about everything Bharatiya needed to be opposed.

Beyond the murderous clamp-down on members of the All Assam Students’ Union that spearheaded the Assam Agitation from 1979 to 1985, hundreds of whom died fighting for the rights of Bharatiyas over those of politically powerful illegal migrants, there was and is an organized syndicate that still represents the illegal Bangladeshi.

SUPREME COURT TO THE RESCUE

After decades of struggle and several legal battles here are the positives that have come about in this war against illegals most of whom are Bangladeshis:

Scrapping of the IMDT Act 1983 by the Supreme Court, in 2005
The Foreigners (Tribunals for Assam) Order 2006, which was brought about by the Congress government to make it serve the same purpose as the IMDT Act after it was scrapped by the Supreme Court, also declared illegal, in 2006
May 8, 2025 ruling by the Supreme Court, with the court declining to intervene in the deportation of illegal Rohingya Muslim migrants from Delhi, saying that if Rohingya refugees in the country were found to be foreigners under Indian laws they will have to be deported.
May 19, 2025 ruling by the Supreme Court which turned down the petition of a Sri Lankan Tamil citizen seeking refuge in the country and protection from deportation. “India is not a dharmashala (free shelter) that can entertain refugees from all over the world”, the Court observed.

SO WHAT SHOULD BHARAT DO NOW AND FOR THE FUTURE?

There is no gainsaying the fact that India’s continual conflict with a terror state called Pakistan is a war on multiple fronts, the most ominous among them being a Pakistan-friendly illegal Bangladeshi population that continues to undermine India’s security from within. This population is aided and abetted by certain political parties who also have on their rolls some handpicked media persons, both of the country and international houses, along with a set of lawyers of questionable integrity, who have made it their business to disrupt the pushback process of illegal Bangladeshis into so-called Bangladesh.

If the experience of the past many decades, buttressed by the legal sanction that the government now has from the country’s Supreme Court the following needs to be done to ensure the safety of Bharat and its people:

Make detection and pushbacks a central subject using the strongest central agencies to carry out the exercise. Needs to be tailormade to be applicable in states that stand against detection and deportation of illegals.
Declare indefinite curfew, empowering our border troops with shoot at sight orders along the country’s eastern borders
Tweak laws and have in place a structure such as the Unified Command that has been used in militancy affected states such as Assam and make it directly answerable to the Union Home Ministry with regard to the detection and push back of illegal Bangladeshis and Rohingyas
Given the activities of their parent countries such as Bangladesh, declare illegals from there as terrorists and make all anti-terror laws applicable in dealing with them
Empower our forces and, where required, the local police with legislations such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and the Assam Disturbed Areas Act to deal with complaints of abetment of terror, or support for Bangladesh and Pakistan
Make way for provisions that take away the power of errant state governments with regard to administration of border blocks and villages. Make them answerable only to state governors and the Centre
Use police personnel of the Northeastern states, the worst affected by the illegal-migrant crisis, to detect illegals across the country. They have suffered and hence they know their language, their accents, their way of life, their targeted areas of livelihood
Make way for zero FIRs, and a strong and modern data bank to track down illegals
Implement the most effective NRC without any further delay across the country
Deal with forces who speak for illegals with an iron hand and ensure they do not have legal reprieve.
Make detection and push backs a summary exercise. It is a deterrent Bharat needs to put in place.
This country has lost hundreds of lives to illegal migrants and their vote-bank supporters, not to mention land and
livelihood. Bharat needs access to the sea. So-called Bangladesh comprises districts of Bharat. With that country, one that we created, becoming a threat, we need to have them back.