Amit Shah meets Mamata one-to-one, land points mentioned

By Express News Service

KOLKATA: Union Home minister Amit Shah met West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee one-to-one on the sidelines of Eastern Zonal Council assembly on Saturday the place points like land for Border Security Force (BSF) outposts and railway tasks and Bengal authorities’s dues from the Centre have been mentioned. The assembly between the 2 political heavyweights continued for 20 minutes earlier than Shah left for Kolkata airport.

In the Eastern Zonal Council assembly convened by Shah at Nbanna, the state secretariat, West Bengal CM, Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav and representatives from Odisha have been current. Fencing alongside the India-Bangladesh border, cross-border smuggling and well timed completion of the freight hall have been the agendas mentioned within the assembly.

The one-to-one assembly between Shah and Mamata mentioned to be politically important at a time when the Bengal authorities and the Centre have been at loggerheads on a number of events over a number of points starting from alleged highhandedness of central companies in opposition to Trinamool Congress leaders and higher coordination between the state police and the BSF

Suvendu Adhikari, BJP chief and the Leader of the Opposition, who got here to the airport to see off Shah, mentioned, ‘’I requested Shahji about his assembly the with CM. He informed me that lands required for organising of 72 BSF outposts alongside the West Bengal-Bangladesh border and higher communication between the state police power and the BSF have been mentioned along with her. The Union minister additionally mentioned that he defined why the India-Bangladesh border is essential for nationwide safety.’’

Adhikari mentioned Shah known as him for a gathering together with BJP’s state president in Delhi on Tuesday to debate ‘’essential points’’.

Sources at Nabanna mentioned that mort essential problem that Shah highlighted within the Council assembly was the fencing of the border between Bengal and Bangladesh. “Of the 2,216 km of the border, 1,638 km is already covered with wired fencing. The Centre is stressing on erecting barbed fencing along another 150 km at the earliest. The rest of the frontier cannot be fenced as the border runs through rivers or has technical problems like the existence of villages within 150 meters from the boundary.”

The problem of cattle smuggling was additionally mentioned within the council assembly.

The ruling TMC is going through embarrassment on the problem of cattle smuggling to Bangladesh because the BJP by no means misses a possibility to make use of it as a political software, and the arrest of TMC strongman Anubrata Mondal by the CBI additional pushed Mamata’s occasion on again foot.

The council assembly continued for 1 hour 40 minutes from 11 am. After the meet, Mamata requested Shah to go to her chamber on the 14th flooring of the state secretariat.

KOLKATA: Union Home minister Amit Shah met West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee one-to-one on the sidelines of Eastern Zonal Council assembly on Saturday the place points like land for Border Security Force (BSF) outposts and railway tasks and Bengal authorities’s dues from the Centre have been mentioned. The assembly between the 2 political heavyweights continued for 20 minutes earlier than Shah left for Kolkata airport.

In the Eastern Zonal Council assembly convened by Shah at Nbanna, the state secretariat, West Bengal CM, Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav and representatives from Odisha have been current. Fencing alongside the India-Bangladesh border, cross-border smuggling and well timed completion of the freight hall have been the agendas mentioned within the assembly.

The one-to-one assembly between Shah and Mamata mentioned to be politically important at a time when the Bengal authorities and the Centre have been at loggerheads on a number of events over a number of points starting from alleged highhandedness of central companies in opposition to Trinamool Congress leaders and higher coordination between the state police and the BSF

Suvendu Adhikari, BJP chief and the Leader of the Opposition, who got here to the airport to see off Shah, mentioned, ‘’I requested Shahji about his assembly the with CM. He informed me that lands required for organising of 72 BSF outposts alongside the West Bengal-Bangladesh border and higher communication between the state police power and the BSF have been mentioned along with her. The Union minister additionally mentioned that he defined why the India-Bangladesh border is essential for nationwide safety.’’

Adhikari mentioned Shah known as him for a gathering together with BJP’s state president in Delhi on Tuesday to debate ‘’essential points’’.

Sources at Nabanna mentioned that mort essential problem that Shah highlighted within the Council assembly was the fencing of the border between Bengal and Bangladesh. “Of the 2,216 km of the border, 1,638 km is already covered with wired fencing. The Centre is stressing on erecting barbed fencing along another 150 km at the earliest. The rest of the frontier cannot be fenced as the border runs through rivers or has technical problems like the existence of villages within 150 meters from the boundary.”

The problem of cattle smuggling was additionally mentioned within the council assembly.

The ruling TMC is going through embarrassment on the problem of cattle smuggling to Bangladesh because the BJP by no means misses a possibility to make use of it as a political software, and the arrest of TMC strongman Anubrata Mondal by the CBI additional pushed Mamata’s occasion on again foot.

The council assembly continued for 1 hour 40 minutes from 11 am. After the meet, Mamata requested Shah to go to her chamber on the 14th flooring of the state secretariat.