India: West Bengal deportations raise human rights concerns
Key takeaways
- Deporting thousands from India's West Bengal state fulfills a key Modi promise but strains ties with neighboring Bangladesh over verification and repatriation.
- https://p.dw.com/p/5FCdk Modi's ruling BJP has repeatedly described immigrants from neighboring Muslim-majority Bangladesh as a 'national security crisis'Image: Amit Dave/REUTERSAdvertisement.
- Just weeks after the vote, authorities ordered districts to set up holding centers for undocumented Bangladeshis and ethnic minority Rohingyas awaiting verification and deportation.
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Deporting thousands from India's West Bengal state fulfills a key Modi promise but strains ties with neighboring Bangladesh over verification and repatriation.
https://p.dw.com/p/5FCdk Modi's ruling BJP has repeatedly described immigrants from neighboring Muslim-majority Bangladesh as a 'national security crisis'Image: Amit Dave/REUTERSAdvertisement. The reported deportation of nearly 5,000 undocumented Bangladeshi nationals from India's West Bengal state, which borders Bangladesh, has become the first major test of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) promise to "detect, delete and deport" after its landslide election victory in the state last month.
Just weeks after the vote, authorities ordered districts to set up holding centers for undocumented Bangladeshis and ethnic minority Rohingyas awaiting verification and deportation.