India, Bengal not safe until borders are secured: Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday remarked India and West Bengal cannot be safe unless the country's borders are secured, alleging that the previous Mamata Banerjee administration delayed the allocation of land needed for fencing along the India-Bangladesh border.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday remarked India and West Bengal cannot be safe unless the country's borders are secured, alleging that the previous Mamata Banerjee administration delayed the allocation of land needed for fencing along the India-Bangladesh border.
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- What happened
- Official response
- Reaction
- The bottom line
Key points
- The complete version of Vande Mataram was never sung in India until at the Red Fort during the Independence Day celebrations this year.
- Shah additionally congratulated West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari for attending an SSB programme, saying previous chief ministers had not participated in such events.
- Shah additionally criticised successive governments for failing to provide due recognition to the national song Vande Mataram after Independence.
- My desperate pleas to Mamata Banerjee for land to set up border fences by the BSF fell on deaf ears.
Addressing a programme at the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) frontier headquarters in Siliguri, Shah remarked 1, 129 acres of land had been sought since 2014 to strengthen border security but was provided only after the Suvendu Adhikari administration came to power.
"My desperate pleas to Mamata Banerjee for land to set up border fences by the BSF fell on deaf ears. I had been asking for 1, 129 acres of land to strengthen border security since 2014. We received the land parcel only after the Adhikari administration was formed in the state, " Shah stated.
He remarked the SSB was not a political organisation and went on that the absence of previous chief ministers from programmes of border guarding forces sent a wrong signal.
"The complete version of Vande Mataram was never sung in India until at the Red Fort during the Independence Day celebrations this year. It gives me solace that the nation has finally recognised the song on the 150th year of its creation by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, " he continued.
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