A 'Long March' to Dhaka by Tripura unit of BJP to protest against atrocities on minority Hindus in Bangladesh was stopped near Akhaura checkpost here by police.
"Over 800 BJP activists, led by state unit president Sudhindra Dasgupta organized a procession and tried to enter Bangladesh territory without valid documents. The procession was stopped about 500 m away from the Indo-Bangla international border and were returned," police said.
Additional forces of the BSF were deployed to guard the border so that none of them could cross the international boundary without valid documents, defence sources said.
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Before the march started, a delegation of BJP workers submitted a memorandum to the Bangladesh mission here demanding a stop to atrocities on minority Hindus and to the destruction of temples by Muslim fundamentalists.
Dasgupta told reporters that BJP expressed solidarity with 'Ganajagaran Mancha' which launched a movement in Dhaka's Shahabag Square for a secular Bangladesh.
