Overview

• Speaking at a Patna media event on Saturday, the Union home minister claimed Assam has halted illegal entries from Bangladesh while asserting they continue in West Bengal.
• He alleged the Mamata Banerjee government instructs local officials to welcome infiltrators, a charge the West Bengal administration has not addressed in these reports.
• Citing rivers, flooding and forests along the Bangladesh border, he said continuous fencing and round-the-clock patrols are not always feasible.
• He urged voters to defeat the Trinamool Congress in next year’s West Bengal assembly elections and said Rahul Gandhi has stopped using the “vote theft” allegation.
• Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the state recently pushed back seven “unwanted elements,” with all such claims reported as official statements without independent verification.