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Pakistan, China Planned Bangladeshi Immigration Into Northeast: COAS Bipin Rawat
General Bipin Rawat (Arvind Yadav/Hindustan Times via GettyImages)
Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) General Bipin Rawat has said that Pakistan and China were behind the immigration of Bangladeshi’s into India’s northeast, in order to fuel a demographic shift. Addressing a seminar organised by the Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS) and the Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) on the topic of the Northeast, he compared the growth of the Jan Sangh and Badruddin Ajmal’s All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), stating that the latter was growing at a much faster pace.
Hinting at Assam turning into a demographically-skewed state like Jammu and Kashmir, he cautions against the rise of radical Islam from across the border. He then explains that the immigration of Bangladeshi’s into India’s northeastern states was primarily due to the lack of space and flooding in the neighbouring country, but at the same time, was fuelled by Pakistan and China, in what he calls a “proxy war”.
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