BGB to intensify patrolling along Indo-Bangla border

The Border Guards of Bangladesh has agreed to intensify patrolling along the 1,880 km-long Indo-Bangladesh border in India's north east to check infiltration and cross-border crimes ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in the region scheduled early next month, officials said today.
"The BGB has agreed to intensify coordinated patrolling along the Indo-Bangladesh border ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in Meghalaya, Assam and in the entire stretches of the border," Meghalaya Frontier BSF Inspector General Anil Kumar said.
"We had intensified patrolling and also pushed more forces at the border during the general elections in Bangladesh recently. We expect that they do the same during elections in our country," Kumar said.

The matter was taken up during the three-day Inspector Generals - Regional Commanders conference of the two border guarding forces held at the Frontier Headquarter here which concluded yesterday. BSF chiefs of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura Frontiers attended the conference.
Meanwhile, Meghalaya Chief Election Officer P Naik said the BSF have been asked to keep tight vigil along the borders in Meghalaya to prevent attempts by anti-national elements from sneaking into the country and disrupt the poll processes.
India and Bangladesh shares a 1,880 km-long International border that stretches from Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram up to Tripura.
The Election Commission of India is conducting elections in 25 Lok Sabha seats in the eight states in the north east early next month.

Assam has the maximum number of seats (14), followed by Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura, and Arunachal Pradesh with two seats each while Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim has one seat each.