1998 की रिपोर्ट:
1998 तक 3 लाख बांग्लादेशी घुसपैठिए दिल्ली में फैल चुके थे, 5 लाख घुसपैठिए बिहार में घुस गए थे...
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1998 तक 54 लाख बांग्लादेशी घुसपैठिए पश्चिम बंगाल में थे,
40 लाख असम में, 8 लाख त्रिपुरा में, इसी तरह राजस्थान, महाराष्ट्र और देश के बाकी राज्यों में फैल चुके थे 1998 तक .... 1971 के बाद से बांग्लादेशी घुसपैठिए भारत में फैलने लगे थे, 1977 के बाद से ये तेजी से भारत में घुस रहे रहे थे.... (1998 तक 1.1 करोड़ घुसपैठिए)
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... Delhi's Seemapuri, home to an estimated 50,000 Bangladeshi immigrants (1998 report)
50-year-old Altaf Hussain still remembers the time his sons Milon and Haroon were caught by the authorities in the wake of an anti-Bangladeshi drive by the local BJP Government in 1994.
... they again came back to Seemapuri. " Here (Delhi) we live in comfort," says Hussain, a migrant from Khulna, Bangladesh.
Altaf Hussain The father of seven came to Delhi in 1970s. Two sons were deported to Bangladesh but they returned.
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27-year-old Multan Ahmed to cross the border and make his way to Ajmer last week. A matriculate whose parents still live in the Motijheel area of Dhaka, Ahmed speaks fluent Hindi...
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Bangladeshis who visit India on visas and then simply disappear. In 1991, 13,424 visited India but only 9,645 returned; in 1992, only 12,160 out of 21,574 went back; and in 1994, only 21,436 of the 29,757 visitors left India. A large number of them disappear only to re-emerge with new identities.
...to distinguish a Bengali from a Bangladeshi at the best of times- dialect is the only give-away. Identification become doubly difficult with dubious papers. In Calcutta's Metiabruz and Garden Reach localities certificates, allegedly issued by block development officers, are easy to come by.
These, in turn, are used to secure ration cards-the state Government is excessively generous in issuing these-a place in the electoral rolls and even Indian passports. In 1996, Regional Passport Officer A.K. Bhattacharya personally supervised the screening of 16,000 "suspicious" passport applications. He sent out letters to the permanent and present addresses given by the applicants and received almost all of them back with the "addressee not found" stamp.
Such a system cannot be conceived without political patronage. As their numbers have grown, Bangladeshi immigrants have become important vote banks. The way was shown by former President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed and Congress leader Moinul Haq Choudhury in Assam.
Left Front can hardly pretend that the problem of illegal immigration from Bangladesh doesn't exist. During his tenure as home minister, veteran CPI leader Indrajit Gupta stumped everyone by casually telling the Lok Sabha on May 6, 1997 that the government estimated the number of illegal immigrants at nearly one crore.
"Out of every 10 persons, one could be from among those who got in illegally," he said. ...the Intelligence Bureau estimates the number of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants at 1.1 crore (1998), with the greatest concentration in West Bengal and Assam . In 1992, an internal note prepared by the Union Home Ministry suggested that illegal immigration has changed the "demographic landscape" of the eastern border states.
Bangladesh has stead fastly denied that its citizens cross over to India, but the country's census figures tell a different story of the missing millions. Sharifa Begum, a demographer at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies in Dhaka, calculated that nearly 3.5 million people "disappeared" from East Pakistan between 1951 and 1961-probably as a result of Partition.
She indicated that another 1.5 million may have entered India between 1961 and 1974. Another fact kept under wraps is that a quarter of the 10 million refugees who came to India during the 1971 liberation struggle probably stayed behind.
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